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Diamond Days. April 2013.
Dear Rowley, When I wrote for the FT one of my favourite assignments was always to indulge in a diamond day: having the opportunity to handle exceptional gemstones destined for the finger or ear lobe of of the imaginary Middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Towers, Brentwood LA, Bulgari, Christie's, Churchill, Cinecitta, Cleopatra, David Guest, Dear Rowley, Elizabeth Taylor, Ella Fitzgerald, Financial Times, Fleet Street, Frank Sinatra, Graff, Howard Hughes, James Sherwood, LA, La Lollo, Lady Thatcher, Legendary Jewels of Elizabeth Taylor, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Liliane Bettencourt, Liza Minnelli, Love Gold, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe, Middle EAst, None So Few, Palace of Westminster, Rome, Solomon & Sheba, Something's Got To Give, Sotheby's, Sotheby's Gina Lollobrigida sale, St James's, St Paul's, Thames & Hudson, Trapeze, World Gold Council
Marilyn Monroe in Florence. June 2012.
Dear Rowley, If prosecco is drunk in sufficient quantities, it is really rather remarkable how fluent I am in Italiano. I’m interacting like a native this season’s Pitti Uomo in Florence even though I suspect I sound like a gibbering … Continue reading
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Elizabeth the 1st March 2011
Dear Rowley, So it’s farewell my lovely Elizabeth Taylor. Put your hands together and give the girl a round of applause. As Richard Burton said of her, ‘Elizabeth wears her fame lightly, like a second skin’. Rock Hudson proved to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century Fox, Betty Ford Clinic, Boom, Botswana, Butterfield 8, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DeBeers, Elizabeth Taylor, ET, James Sherwood, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Liza Minnelli, MAggie the Cat, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Mrs Goforth, Noel Coward, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Rowley, Royal Albert Hall Elizabeth Taylor Tribute Concert, Sally Morrison, Something's Got To Give, Suddenly Last Summer, Susan Farmer, Tennessee Williams, The Mirror Crack'd, the Witch of Capri, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, YouTube
Savile Row at Hatchards October 2010
Dear Rowley, I love Hatchards, don’t you? I have been buying all of my books from this 18th century galleon of bookshops on Piccadilly for the longest time; not least because the staff are better read than the customers. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Anda, Anderson & Sheppard, Beau Brummell, C.J. Sansom, Dege & Skinner, Dom Perignon, Dormeuil, Dubonnet & Gin, Ede & Ravenscroft, Edward Sexton, Field Day, Fieldf Day, Fox Flannel, Gieves & Hawkes, Guy Hills, Hatchard's, Henry Poole, Huntsman, James Sherwood, John Durnin, Karin, Keith Badmen, Marilyn Monroe, Mrs T, Poppy, Prince of WAles, Prince Regent, Savile Row, Savile Row Bespoke, Savile Row: The Master Tailors of British Bespoke, Something's Got To Give, The Mikado, The Row, Tommy Nutter