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...The Duchess of Devonshire was the youngest of the Mitford sisters, high-society siblings including Nancy Mitford, author of Love in a Cold Climate....
...On entering, Ferdinand scented the flowers in the lady spectators’ hats, sat down and refused to fight....
...At the end of one evening out I found him in a corner watching videos of ducks wearing flowers as hats....
...Someone who manages to be showered and cleanly dressed (with candles lit, flowers arranged and food warming in the kitchen) well before guests arrive....
...Returning to the house in the winter, he was astounded to see a bunch of the same flowers....
...I first learnt to love it in the great Oxfordshire garden of Nancy Lancaster, owner of the interior design business Colefax & Fowler. Her eye for style was unsurpassed....
...The expanded biography includes a rewritten interchapter exploring “Orwell and the Jews”, plus new ones on “Orwell and the Working Classes” and “Orwell and the ‘Nancy Boys’”....
...I’ve gone full Nancy Mitford on the flowers. I hope she approves when she gets here later, although she might not approve of the blurry line between guests and staff....
...She also influenced a generation of female politicians, including Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who emulated her bright, tailored day clothes to set themselves apart from...
...“Flower power kids came here in the ’70s to rebel against their parents,” Merlin says. “Now, kids come here to do fentanyl.”...
...Haight-Ashbury, once home to hippies, fills up with flower-power-themed trinket shops. This is why many leavers will return, despite the city’s well publicised problems....
...In 1945, Nancy Mitford already held views that have sprung back into prominence. She disliked sterile trees with double flowers....
...When it comes to wrist candy, forget itsy-bitsy, barely there bracelets: bangles are big, bold and strong, yet still worn layered – like Nancy Cunard’s famous stacked bangles....
...In my west-facing eyrie, I find a bright yellow cuckoo clock, animal-themed cushions and a potting tray in which chocolate flowers are “growing”....
...The summer season in Newport kicks off at the end of June with the Preservation Society’s Flower Show, and from 4 July, everybody starts to descend on the town....
...For gardens with flowers, the choice is just as remarkable. Out of hundreds here are some of my top ones, all with plenty to see in August....
..., of course, flowers everywhere....
...While her upbringing was the epitome of aristocratic privilege — her grandparents included the great American tastemaker Nancy Lancaster and the 10th Duke of Devonshire — Tree was always aware she had been...
...Leaves drift along the stairway, flowers bloom from skirting boards; a serpent wiggles around the bookcase....
...While Joe Biden is the first president to wear the all-American label to his swearing-in, he follows a long line of Democrats and Republicans alike to favour the brand, from Nancy Reagan to George W Bush...
...Nancy, in eastern France, was the heart of Art Nouveau, the movement of swirling tendrils, budding flowers, stained glass and wilting women....
...It was a man-made hybrid, a Russian child with a French mother, the Belle de Nancy. Eighteen suppliers list it in the RHS Plantfinder but they do not always have stock....
...“I remember I said to Kamala: ‘I don’t think we can have a $5,000 bill for flowers?’ ” he recalled....
...He was a flower-voyeur, not an actual gardener. He liked cut flowers and views of gardens from his window....
...(Perhaps our whippet Merlin could turn a shade of violet for our pastoral festival, in honour of Berners, who served as inspiration for Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate....
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