Hints and tips:
Related Topics
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...Masculinity, as the influential gender theorist Judith Butler has contended, is a “performance” that becomes accepted as reality through the same shared actions and behaviours....
...Now entrenched in Olympia, London’s distinctive Art Deco exhibition centre, 100% Design used to be in nearby Earls Court....
...Upstairs were the Crawley family, and downstairs, cooks, butlers and scullery maids....
...The rooms are decorated in natural colours with local materials and kept desert-simple but everything is exquisitely styled and a butler is on hand....
...Two labradors, trained by his wife, would track him through the colossal country mansion and deliver notes from the butler, cook and countess. His son, the 8th Earl, takes a less whimsical approach....
...When it's not being used as the set for Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle in southwest England is used by the 8th Earl of Carnarvon and his wife, Lady Carnarvon....
...Photographs: David Norton/National Trust Images; Andrew Butler/National Trust Images Slideshow photographs: bowood.org; David Norton/National Trust Images; Andrew Butler/National Trust Images; Abbotsbury...
...In Barnes’s breakthrough play, the newly ennobled 14th Earl of Gurney panics his patrician family by claiming to be the New Testament God of love....
...Butler, an awkward soul, was positively genial. The drabness of Earls Court – a venue condemned to demolition – only enhanced the alchemy....
...Sticking a shako (a tall military hat) on their heads made them look as if they had just walked out of an Elizabeth Butler canvas....
...By 1961, Needham’s father, newly-installed as the fifth earl, had decided to sell off the Kilmorey family seat....
...Among the American painters to descend on this pocket of northern France were Cassatt, Sargent, Robinson, John Leslie Breck and Theodore Earl Butler, who would go on to marry Suzanne Hoschedé, whose mother...
...What you will do is stop at a tented enclosure in the middle of the forest and be served tea, coffee and snacks by a Goodwood butler....
...By then the earl was 55....
...(They also have branches in Brixton, Islington and Brighton.) 82 Leather Lane, EC1N 7TR The Dean Swift A few streets from Butler’s Wharf, this corner pub has been given a crisp, clean look, with white...
...As to the staff, Cetinale has four gardeners, a manager, housekeeper, two butlers and five maids....
...Robert Plant – enough of a fan once to have bearded Jansch in his dressing room – sang “Go Your Way My Love” accompanied by Bernard Butler on electric guitar....
...The attractive shop showcases the craft and skill of butchery, offering elegant displays of trimmed meat including its famous 21-day-aged beef, Cornish lamb and Jimmy Butler’s free-range pork. 108 Warwick...
...Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain, by Lucy Lethbridge, Bloomsbury, RRP£20, 400 pages In 1901, when Edward VII decided to visit the Earl of Derby accompanied by 40 of his best friends...
...This gated scheme by St James consists of 32 large apartments and houses set around the Victorian walled garden of Butlers Court....
...Lionel, one of the butlers, can also take guests out for a leisurely turn in a rowing boat or fishing for pike....
...David Butler, fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Roger Carr, chairman, Centrica....
...Exceptionally, the middle classes feature – in the form of distant relatives of the Earl, the Crawleys, mother and son (Penelope Wilton and Dan Stevens), the latter a solicitor who – since the earl has no...
...But Tony Butler, senior analyst at Barclays Capital, said the real action will take place many miles away from the nation’s capital....
International Edition