The U.K. papers tried to whip something up about her being racy for wearing a pink wig on Necker Island, but no one bit.
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Publicatuon came as further pics of Harry passed out in the sand on Necker Island, before he got to Vegas, emerged.
The Sun is First British Paper to Publish Nude Harry Pics|Tom Sykes|August 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
You will observe that Mr. Necker renews the promise of taking off the ten sous pour livre, at the end of the next year.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson
Necker himself were now welcome, could he interfere to purpose.
The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
The conversation was always intellectual, and whenever she tired of French vivacity, she would spend an evening with Mme. Necker.
Women of Modern France (Illustrated)|Hugo Paul Thieme (1870-1940)
Madame Necker was forty, and her voice was failing just when her powers were at their height.
Song of the Lark|Willa Cather
Necker is dismissed, Paris is breaking prisons, troops are gathering thick round the capital and Versailles.
Talleyrand|Joseph McCabe
British Dictionary definitions for Necker
Necker
/ (ˈnɛkə, Frenchnɛkɛr) /
noun
Jacques (ʒak). 1732–1804, French financier and statesman, born in Switzerland; finance minister of France (1777–81; 1788–90). He attempted to reform the fiscal system and in 1789 he recommended summoning the States General. His subsequent dismissal was one of the causes of the storming of the Bastille (1789)