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I’ve Been To A Marvellous Party. December 2011.
Dear Rowley, As La Farmer would say, I feel like I’ve been shot out of a canon; rather in the spirit of Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie hollering ‘raspberries darling!’ . As the old boiler said to the taxi dancer, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiques Roadshow, BBC Fashion at Royal Ascot. Dear Rowley, Bespoke Banter, Bill Tildon, Blithe Spirit, Bloomsbury Towers. Bloomsbury Square, Brenda Dean Paul, Bright Young Things, Bryan and Diana Guinness, Capri, Carol Channing, Cecil Beaton, Charleston, Duke of Windsor, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Faberge. Wartski. Geoffrey Munn, Fellini, Fort Belvedere, Fotheringay, Fox St James's Street, Gail Capri, Great Exhibition 1851, House of Elliot, James Sherwood, Joe Allen, Kate & William, Lady Elizabeth Anson, Mary Queen of Scots, Mrs Simpson, Napoleon III, NBC, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Primrose HIll, Prince of WAles, Queen Mary, Royal Ascot, Royal wedding, Russian Imperial Family, Scott Wimsett, Sir Tom Baker, Southampton Row, Stephen Tennant, Tallulah Bankhead, Thames & Hudson, The Boyfriend, the Duke of Windsor, The Kooples, The Perfect Gentleman, the raft of the Medusas, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Guy Hills. Dashing Tweeds. Kirstie, Timothy Morgan Owen, Tsar Nicholas II. Empress Alix., Valpoliparrot
Royal Wedding 5. April 2011
Dear Rowley, One of the left wing media whinge monkeys on Radio 4 contemplated this morning whether the Royal Wedding was the beginning of the end for European monarchies: a last gasp before the entire institution tottered on the precipice … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander McQueen exhibition, Anna Wintour, Autumn Philips, BBC1 Royal Wedding, Bea Schaffer, Buckingham Palace, Carole Middleton, Catherine MIddleton, Clarence House, Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Dear Rowley, Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke of Cambridge, European Royal Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, Gwyneth Paltrow, ITV, James Middleton, James Sherwood, Kings Road, Lady Elizabeth Anson, LAdy Ella Windsor, Lady GaGa, Lady Helen Taylor, Lady Sarah Chatto, Lady Sophie Windsor, Letters from Bloombury Square, Madonna, Metropolitan Costume Institute Ball, Nina Dobrev, Olsen twins, Peter Hitchens, Pippa Middleton, Princess Alexandra, Princess Anne, Princess Beatrice, Princess Charlene of Monaco, Princess Eugenie, Princess Letizia of Spain, Princess Michael of Kent, Queen Rania of Jordan, Radio 4, Rowley, Royal wedding, Sheikh Mohammad, the Countess of Wessex, The Queen, Twitter, US Vogue, Victoria Beckham, Westminster Abbey, Zara Philips
The Tweed Run April 2011
Dear Rowley, There’s a Kirsty McColl song called Thank You for the Days that came to mind on Grand National Saturday. It has now become something of a tradition that I gather-up a picnic and scads of Prosecco from John … Continue reading
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Tagged Aintree, Anda Rowland, Ascot Enclosure, Ascot GRandstand, Balmain, Bedford Square, Catherine MIddleton, Cheltenham, Dear Rowley, Duke of Devonshire, Ewan McGregor, Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Fashion at Royal Ascot, Fitzroy Square, Ginger Beer, Grand National, Huntsman, James Sherwood, John Lewis, Johnny Allen, Kirsty McColl, Ladbroke GRove, Lady Elizabeth Anson, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Marrakech, Natalie Galustian, Oscar Time, Paris, Peter Smith, Pimms, Poppy Charles, Prince William, Privy Councel, Prosecco, Royal Ascot, Royal Enclosure, Royal Mile, Royal wedding, Sam Whaley-Cohen, Savile Row, Tarzan, Thank You For The Days, The Chap, The Chap Olympiad, The Queen, The Tweed Run, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, Yves Saint Laurent
Road Rage April 2011
Dear Rowley, Finally back at home as black as a pit pony having spent another afternoon in the Henry Poole & Co archive trying to track down the founder of the Buchanan whiskey dynasty – a one James Buchanan – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1877, Amanda Wakeley, Anne of the Thousand Days, Anne Robinson, BAFTA, Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Towers, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge, Buchanan Whiskey, Catherine MIddleton, Cyclists, Dear Rowley, Edward & Mrs Simpson, Eton, Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style, Gail from Capri, Geneveve Bujold, Gieves & Hawkes, Helen MIrren, Henry Poole & Co, Holborn Health Spa, House of Cards, I Claudius, James Sherwood, Jonathan Reece-Myers, Lady Elizabeth Anson, Lennox Lewis, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Mapp & Lucia, Mary Queen of Scots, Maxine PEak, Natalie Dormer, Niamh, Oxford, Prime Suspect, Prince William, Queen Anne Boleyn, Radio 3, RAf Uniform, Rupert Penry-Jones, Scottish, Silk, Southwark Cathedral, Switzerland, The Savoy, The Tudors, Welsh Anne Robinson, Westminster Abbey