Travelex founder puts the childhood home where Daphne du Maurier allegedly conducted two of her most illicit relationships on the market for £32 million (more…)
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Roald Dahl: Literary hero
James Murphy lauds Roald Dahl as a literary hero
My last article focused on Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl provides a natural sequel. Like Fleming, Dahl’s work continues to film and television from beyond his grave. (more…)
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Think before you tweet
Mandy Rice-Davies provides a lesson in how to behave on Twitter
A misguided tweet cost Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, an estimated £100,000. Yesterday, when Mandy Rice-Davies, famous for her role in the Profumo scandal, took to Twitter to attack me in the wake of an article I published about George Galloway, Ms Bercow again came to mind. (more…)
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Bobby and Ivey Leidy (AKA Mr and Mrs Robert Leidy, Jr.)
This wealth manager is the eldest grandson of Lilly Pulitzer and his wife runs an organic, gluten free and vegan West Palm Beach bakery named Sweet Ivey’s. This modest philanthropic couple held their wedding on North End Beach, Palm Beach and of her wedding dress, Ivey Leidy told Town & Country: “I don’t even know who made it”. -
Candida Lycett Green (1942 – 2014; nicknamed “Wibz”)
The daughter of John Betjeman, Candida Lycett Green was English through and through. An author, conservationist and horsewoman, Lycett Green was a bohemian member of the Private Eye set whom lived by the Reverend Sydney Smith’s “take the short view of human life, never further than dinner or tea”. She began her marriage to the “romantic maverick” gambler Rupert Lycett Green with a round the world trip in a Land Rover and tellingly wrote such books as Goodbye London and Unwrecked England. A mother of five, Lycett Green bred 60 winning racehorses and loved exploring England. -
Wise words
Meghan McCain on marriage
Last week, Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, took to Twitter to share her views on marriage. In announcing her views on marriage, she showed herself to be a wise and grounded young lady. (more…)
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Sally Farmiloe-Neville (1954 – 2014)
This Hampshire born actress, model and author embodied the spirit of a true trooper. Having starred in the 1980s drama series Howards’ Way, Farmiloe-Neville made her name organising fundraisers for both the Conservatives and charities and did so with a panache second to none. She did not allow an affair with Jeffrey Archer to shape her and as a caring mother to daughter Jade, stepson Alistair and adopted daughter Kat, lived happily with her husband Jeremy Neville, a chartered surveyor, in Baron’s Court. Having sadly lost her long battle with breast cancer, Sally Farmiloe-Neville’s arrival will now mean heaven will forever be a none stop party. -
Romantic heroes: Ian Fleming and James Bond
James Murphy examines his romantic heroes, Ian Fleming and James Bond
I was privileged to attend the recent Masterpiece art and antiques fair in Chelsea. For me, the undoubted highlight was coming face to face with the letters of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, on Peter Harrington’s stand. (more…)
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Jack Carlson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times asks author of “Rowing Blazers” Jack Carlson: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Creativity and persistence.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam: “Either I shall find a way, or I shall make one”.
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Frank Furedi (born Ferenc Furedi)
This Hungarian “former student radical” and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent argued that historic abuse offences should effectively be swept under the carpet on Newsnight in July 2014. Faversham based Furedi – who is married to the CEO of the UK’s largest independent abortion provider – has previously bizarrely leapt to the support of Sarah Palin, attacked the scientific consensus on Global Warming and published a book titled “First World War: Still No End in Sight”. His supporters argue that his critics are just “jealous, small-minded and unable to engage politically or intellectually with the ideas he devises and promulgates on a cooperative, non-coercive basis” whilst he loftily sees himself as “the Lenin de nos jours”. That this academic, wannabe politician and author wrote a book describing the Jimmy Savile scandal as a “moral crusade” in 2013 about says it all. Frank Furedi is nothing more than a pompous, ridiculous man.