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  • Robert F. Kennedy III (AKA “Bobby Kennedy III”)

    Robert F. Kennedy III (AKA “Bobby Kennedy III”)

    Bobby Kennedy IIIA writer and film producer, Robert F. Kennedy III featured on the Town & Country ‘Most Eligible Bachelors’ list in September 2014. The son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his first wife, Emily Black, this Brown graduate has 1,200 followers on Twitter and is most typically photographed in a fedora. His credits include AmeriQua and ELEW: Live from Infinity and of politics, he tellingly once stated: “People that… get into politics too early, before they’ve had a chance to express themselves and kind of be free and do what they want to do, end up being the most corrupt politicians”.

     

  • Ivan Pun

    Ivan Pun

    Ivan PunOxford educated Ivan Pun is plainly someone the party crasher David Pun would love to be. He features on Town & Country’s ‘Most Eligible Bachelors’ list, is described as liking “the international party circuit” and works in his father’s property development business, Serge Pun Associates (SPA), as head of corporate development. Yangon based and a lover of history and architecture, Pun is a “young man in a hurry to get things done”. When asked what he does to relax, he replied: “Relax? I don’t really relax”.

     

  • Lady Wolfson

    Lady Wolfson

    Lady WoolfsonWith her late husband, Lady Wolfson was and remains as one of the UK’s leading philanthropists. The Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation provides around £35 million per year “to support scientific and medical research, education and the arts” and this fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; King’s College, London; University College, London; the Ashmolean, Oxford; Imperial College, London and the Royal Albert Hall is also a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons; a member of the Lord Major’s Appeal committee, a member of the Red Cross International & Scientific committee, the chair of the committee for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital; a yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries; a member of the Campaign for Institute of Physics and honorary president of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. How on earth does this stoic and generous lady find the time?

     

  • A missive from Mayfair

    A missive from Mayfair

    Restaurateur Gavin Rankin shares his views on summer in Mayfair

     

    August, in Mayfair, used never to be the high spot of a restaurant’s year. Tumbleweed blew about and disheveled restaurateurs roamed the streets, avoiding eye contact, and scouring the pavements for loose change. (more…)

  • His Highness Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Al Nahyan

    His Highness Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Al Nahyan

    Sheikh Shakhboot Bin Nahyan Al Nahyan copyThis “famed show jumper” began riding at the age of three and competed at the 2010 World Championships aged just 19. He was fourth in the 2011 Pan Arab Games team event with Valentino Balia and hosted the British Polo Day in Abu Dhabi in March 2014. Sheikh Shakhboot aims to represent his nation at the Olympics and believes: “The world is getting smaller and sport is getting bigger all the time. You can get many nationalities in a sport and it is all peaceful. Not so with politics”.

     

  • Previewing Privé

    Wednesday marks the start of one of Britain’s best automotive events, Salon Privé 2014

     

    This Wednesday marks the event of the year for motoring aficionados in Britain as it is the opening day of Salon Privé at Syon Park, ten miles from Central London. (more…)

  • Bobby and Ivey Leidy (AKA Mr and Mrs Robert Leidy, Jr.)

    Bobby and Ivey Leidy (AKA Mr and Mrs Robert Leidy, Jr.)

    Bobby and Ivey LeidyThis 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”.

     

  • Christie Brinkley

    Christie Brinkley

    Christie BrinkleyThe world’s third richest model, Christie Brinkley was born in Monroe, Michigan and has been married four times. A mother of three and a supporter of the Democratic Party, Brinkley is a vegetarian and owns vasts swathes of real estate in the Hamptons. Of her marriage to property developer Richard Taubman, she commented: “I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, because everyone seemed to realize what a mistake I was making except me. My girlfriends and my mother knew, but I wouldn’t listen to them. I must’ve got whacked on the head, but he presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with”.

     

  • Candida Lycett Green (1942 – 2014; nicknamed “Wibz”)

    Candida Lycett Green (1942 – 2014; nicknamed “Wibz”)

    Candida Lycett GreenThe 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.

     

  • Cognac Wellerlane

    Cognac Wellerlane

    Cognac WellerlaneAmerica’s answer to Coronation Street’s Bet Lynch is famed as an interviewer of the rich and famous in New York and the Hamptons. This unashamed fur lover has profiled everyone from Paris Hilton to Henry Kissinger and appeared as a socialite in The Devil Wears Prada. We can’t be alone in wondering as to what the favourite tipple of Cognac Wellerlane could be.