"Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have erupted in gentle Georgian Squares."
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: Instead of designing an extension to the elegant façade of the National Gallery which complements it ... it looks as if we may be presented with a kind of vast municipal fire station. ... I would understand better this type of high-tech approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again ... but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.
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Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer
Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer (née McCorquodale; 9 September 1929 – 21 October 2016) was a British socialite and local politician. She was the daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and the romantic novelist and socialite Barbara Cartland, and the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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