Hints and tips:
...Spotting beads of sweat forming on her brow, her butler leaps forward with a tissue and dabs her forehead gently....
...Like Sadler’s Birthday (1976), in which an ageing butler looks back on his life, and The Cupboard, published five years later, where an elderly novelist recounts her story and the history of the 20th century...
...At the opposite extreme of biographies of the heart is Veronica Buckley’s Madame de Maintenon....
...Robin Butler, of Butler's Wine Antiques, (he has an American affiliate in Arizona, Thomas Kier), could be regarded as an éminence grise of the wine antiques field....
...Insiders say he reports directly to Paul Dacre, not ES editor Veronica Wadley....
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