Hints and tips:
...The hitch for Yanks wishing to live out this reverie today is that, outside Oxbridge, most British men — even landed gentry — don’t bust out their boating blazers quite as often as they used to....
...The teak and iron glasshouses at Chelsea Physic Garden are the most complete examples of their type in the UK....
...Stella Tower in Hell’s Kitchen has a sister building, Walker Tower, in Chelsea, built by the same developers: a like-for-like home in Stella would be “half the price”, says Poore....
...But while a hereditary premiership in modern Britain is unheard of, in republican America, Chelsea Clinton running for president remains axiomatic....
...His father was a landowning member of the gentry who left his estates in County Down to his firstborn son. Hans, the second born, had to make his own way in the world....
...When I tell him that it is a relief to see so many plants which never appear at swanky flower shows, I ask him if he ever goes to the Chelsea show himself....
...Hugh Seaborn, chief executive of a £3.5bn Chelsea portfolio owned by the Earl of Cadogan, says leasehold reform provided a catalyst for change. “It meant two very fundamental changes happened at once....
...I also like them because they are the underdogs to gentry snobs, some of whom, without any sense of humour, have seen to it that gnomes are officially banned from the Chelsea Flower Show....
...Heavy expenditure on Marlborough College fees and a flat in Chelsea could then be capitalised in the asset values of the three children, and of Kate in particular....
..., home to American bankers and the London base for faded gentry....
...The favoured architectural practice of the Prince of Wales, it recently drew up an alternative – and controversial – classical vision of the Chelsea Barracks site in London, a project from which the practice...
...By comparison, a home on a 96-year lease in polished Tregunter Road, Chelsea, sold for £1.85m in 1989. It would now fetch between £12m and £15m....
...Joe Macari’s business card says “purveyor of horseless carriages to the gentry”....
...of Mayfair: Paul Davies, an FT capital markets correspondent, looks at how the hedge fund industry has transformed London’s Mayfair district from a steadfast village within London for the English landed gentry...
...Audacious border With the Chelsea Flower Show over, the thoughts of the gardening world can turn to next month’s annual meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society and another lively contest for election...
...As the Chelsea Flower Show opens to members on Tuesday, the RHS has just the hint of controversy to cope with....
...Curiously this comes from Asda, not renowned as an emporium frequented by the landed gentry, who are supposed by some to be the keenest croquet players, although its Hull branch does seem to be Pauline...
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