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...Van Dyck painted Venetia as if she were merely asleep, her lips still full and warmly coloured, cheeks as rosy as the petals scattered on the counterpane....
...“Get up Eve and braid your long silver hair/Let’s go down to Mount Street/And eat smoked salmon/On buttered brown bread/With slices of cucumber/Fragile as rose petals…” It recalls how, in exchange for an...
...In private hands for more than a century, it was initially run as a coconut plantation by a British family before being sold to Malcolm Forbes, of Rich List fame, in the 1970s....
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