Royal Childhood – Buckingham Palace, London This year’s special exhibition to coincide with the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace, chronicles the lives of royal children over...
House Spa at Dormy House Hotel – Broadway, The Cotswolds Dormy House is not your typical country house hotel. No chintz or swags in sight; rather a beautifully chic hideaway...
A Visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon We’re ashamed to admit it but when we lived in London we hardly ever visited the home of the Royal...
The Real Casino Royale – Deauville-Trouville, Normandy, France “The formalities of getting into the casino need not deter you. All you need is your passport and a respectable...
Summer Opening at Buckingham Palace: The Queen’s Coronation 1953 ‘Opposite are row upon row of peeresses mounting towards the very roof: They look like a lovely hunk of fruit...
Fashion Rules at Kensington Palace – London We couldn’t make last week’s press viewing of Fashion Rules at Kensington Palace, so took the opportunity yesterday, to spend...
Four Seasons Hotel – Hampshire Four Seasons Hotel, Hampshire, sits in the most glorious 500 acres of unspoilt parkland in rural Dogmersfield, just an hour’s...
The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch – Windsor Castle At Windsor Castle’s Drawings Gallery, The Queen: Portraits of a Monarch is a truly fascinating and rather lovely exhibition which presents...
On The Trail of David Hockney – East Yorkshire Look at the incredible variety of grasses, look at the marvellous leaves; look at the colour. Isn’t it beautiful…pure joy....
Salts Mill, Bradford, Yorkshire Salts Mill opened in 1853, 4 miles north of Bradford. Designed by Lockwood and Mawson, it ‘gleamed in glass and...
Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration, Buckingham Palace Last Friday, the day before the official summer opening of Buckingham Palace, we visited a remarkably quiet palace (if you...
The Royal Wedding Dress: A Story of Great British Design Last week we slipped behind the gilded gates of Buckingham Palace to view the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress which, this year, is part...