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  • Felicity Kendal CBE

    Felicity Kendal CBE

    Felicity KendalThis stunning actress has been known to have both lunch and dinner at La Brasserie in South Kensington on the same day and is best known for playing Barbara Good in The Good Life. Warwickshire born, twice divorced and a convert from Catholicism to Judaism, Kendal’s dream dinner party would include Byron, Gandhi, Eddie Izzard and George Bernard Shaw. She was voted one of the “100 sexiest women in the world” by FHM Magazine in 1995 and once stated: “I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I’m 70, like my mother did”. She loves a martini.

  • Naff off

    Naff off

    Central London is losing its character

     

    A house in Pelham Street for £105 million, Tamara Ecclestone spends £1 million on a bathtub and Made in Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews racks up a bar bill of £450,000. These are all headlines we’ve featured recently that illustrate the nonsensical world that has become The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Mayfair and Belgravia. (more…)

  • Angela and Dave Dawes

    Angela and Dave Dawes

    Dave and Angela DawesThey may have got lucky on the EuroMillions when they won £101 million, but didn’t have much luck after. Mrs Dawes sadly got cancer, the couple fell victim to a hoax email scam and though they moved from a scruffy £70 per week rented flat in Wisbech to a flat in Chelsea Harbour to be close to Mr Dawes’ beloved Chelsea Football Club, their marriage ended in tears and an ex-husband came out of the woodwork to reveal a tale of debts and a disowned son. Mr Dawes rather appropriately has “HATE” tattooed on his knuckles. What a pair.

  • Seeing in 2014

    Seeing in 2014

    The perfect spot to say goodbye to 2013

     

    Struggling for ideas as to what to do on New Year’s Eve in Central London? If so, La Brasserie is offering a 6-course dinner with music by DJ Chris Sullivan for just £69. (more…)

  • Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo

    Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo

    Francesca and Elisabetta GrilloThe daughters of a convicted Italian kidnapper were cleared of defrauding Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi at a trial at Isleworth Crown Court in December 2013. These “kitchen confidantes” stated that they were “treated worse than Filipino slaves” and added that they’d “rather go to jail” than live in Battersea. There’ll be no more cupcakes for this duo.

  • #TeamTrouble

    #TeamTrouble

    The not guilty verdict in the case of the former assistants to Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson’s highlights nothing but the mess that was their marriage

     

    #TeamNigella has trended on Twitter in recent weeks. Even the Prime Minister joined in. Few have leapt to the defence of the television presenter’s former husband, Charles Saatchi, however, but yesterday, still, his Evening Standard column still proudly graced the entirety of page 39. (more…)

  • Russians, rock stars and royalty

    Russians, rock stars and royalty

    A £6 million mews house on the site of Henry VIII’s manor house

     

    Cheyne Walk in Chelsea has long been a favourite address of Russians, rock stars and royalty. Cheyne Mews, situated to the rear of it, is built on the site of King Henry VIII’s manor house and with the sale of a £5,950,000 mews house there, a purchaser has the opportunity to acquire what agents Chesterton Humberts describe as a “discreet country cottage in the heart of Chelsea”. (more…)

  • Grace Dent

    Grace Dent

    Grace DentThis Carlisle born author, broadcaster and columnist loathes Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland but loves Tartufo in Cadogan Gardens, SW3. Dent’s witty weekly Evening Standard column ‘Grace and Flavour’ is a must read as her acerbic commentaries about London’s best and worst eating spots are just brilliant. She has nearly 200,000 followers on Twitter and has also written eleven novels.

  • Messing about on the Mouette

    Messing about on the Mouette

    A houseboat in Chelsea for £795,000

     

    Ratty, Mole, Mr. Badger and Mr. Toad in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows lived by the belief that: “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”. Whomever purchases the M.S. Mouette, a converted former passenger ferry moored on Chelsea’s Cadogan Pier, is likely to be someone who’ll also live by this mantra. (more…)

  • The art loving duo

    The art loving duo

    The art loving duoThis pair never miss an art gallery opening night. Prosecco surely flows through their veins.