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...Forty years ago, a City lunch would glide forward from G&T through white, red, port, brandy and cigars....
...Each pays homage to past office-holders: Roy Jenkins, Labour party reformer and grand gourmand; Gaston Thorn, plucky Luxembourger; and Jacques Delors, the French philosopher king who helped to build the...
...It’s the little touches that linger, such as the discovery that this most sophisticated of souls liked nothing better of an evening than to reread an E Nesbit novel, accompanied by a stiff brandy....
...For the real Richard Burton was one Richard Walter Jenkins, indeed born in 1925, the 12th of 13 children....
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