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...In 2003, he acted for Queen Elizabeth, winning an injunction against the Daily Mirror newspaper after a reporter posed as a Buckingham Palace footman....
...Adonis Siddique, as his much-maligned footman, is also drolly funny. Giedroyc, likewise, makes a visiting French aristocrat a juicy comic turn by dint of a haughty air and eccentric laugh....
...Reading their accounts, you can’t help feeling they got a more thrilling frisson from sharing a pot of home-made stew without a footman than they took in any of their convoluted couplings....
...pre-island days) by one of the grand family he serves whether he yearns for universal social equality, he replies: “Any satisfaction I might derive from being your equal, m’lady, would be ruined by the footman...
...She likes to give a clue as to what topic of conversation might unite the new acquaintances, recalling a party where she was seated next to a surly, unspeaking woman, when the footman passed her a note:...
...Her parents, meanwhile, have won the gift of a week-long experience of life as the domestic staff of Downton Abbey, playing footman and lady’s maid to a stir-crazy teenager....
...A footman in white livery serves us coffee in white-fluted cups with bespoke gold rims from Royal Copenhagen. A neat stack of paper napkins carry the couple’s cypher, an interlocked F and M....
...Dessert (three courses in all) is heralded by a footman banging his staff on the ground and shouting, “The delicacies of the king!” In one evening, I drink several of the best wines I’ve ever had....
...And, in A True Born Englishman (never previously publicly performed), we encounter Leslie Bray, a footman to the royal family giving a magazine interview....
...With the music of “Footman’s Coat” shimmering like one of Emmylou Harris’s records with Daniel Lanois, she muses on choices not made....
...For me, the One True Drink is high-end Burgundy, white or red, but it might for others be daiginjo sake or the kind of single-malt that you have to bribe the footman at Balmoral to access....
...She entrusted volume two to her footman, who turned out to be able to paint rather well. Britain is about to be re-treed....
...During the 1960s, it equipped the dashing Lord Snowdon with silk turtlenecks, and when he and David Frost were refused entry to The Running Footman in New York for wearing them, T&A was deluged with orders...
...There’s a lot of sitting around eating and drinking, relatives quarrelling, servants bustling, a footman who runs in and out hastily tugging at his jacket....
...Meanwhile, Alana (Annie McNamara), the lusty mistress of the “big house”, demands that her strapping footman Phillip (Sullivan Jones) help her scratch an “itch”....
...Mr Footman added that the BoE had asked the winners of the auction prize if they wanted their identities divulged, and they had refused.....
...The accounts of the bank’s £4.4bn pension fund “should be boring too”, says John Footman, chairman of the trustees, in a note to scheme members. Both men understate the case....
...For Steven McRae as the tap-dancing Mad Hatter; for the line of men zipping insouciantly through double tours en l’air; for the gloriously disjointed Cheshire Cat; for David Yudes’ Frog Footman and Fernando...
...equated with Christmas by 1828 when Harriet Rebecca King published Oakdale Cottage: Or, the Christmas Holidays in which “a bright fire was blazing in the comfortable sitting room of Oakdale Cottage, and the footman...
...The company is perhaps best known for a 1990s advert, designed in house, featuring a diplomatic reception where chocolates are served on a silver salver by a footman in livery....
...For instance, vague acquaintances would throw open our front door (no one locked doors) and shout “Hello, it’s me-eee” rather than ringing the bell, knocking or sending a footman ahead....
...“I want to make damn sure in my productions that everyone, down to Footman Number 3 on the left, knows exactly why they’re on that stage.”...
...also represented the Queen, winning an injunction in the High Court in 2003 to stop The Daily Mirror newspaper from publishing further allegations about her home life by a reporter who had worked as a footman...
...Immediately after, Mr Habgood asked John Footman, the Bank’s company secretary, to check....
...My father-in-law was a footman to the gentry when he was young, and one of his regular duties was to polish up silver from the vaults for his lordship to give as gifts....
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