Admiral Cod

'For it's a subtle craft, the art of the playboy--the creation of a life of tasteful public and private pleasure--and it's one t...

Apparently I am not the only one interested in Prince Philip's dress code. The Financial Times published this past Friday evening a pie...

It is turning out to be a very Royal season. First there was the wedding of William and Kate. Zara Phillips's wedding follows in July. A...

Note the large hip flask

Oxford The savages, as I keep reminding you, are not only inside the gate--they are actually running the place. I am not the only one to...

From: The Anglo  American

The life of an Internet Sensation, I am discovering, leaves little room for other, more important things. Interview requests, sponsorship op...

Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery. At the end of a lo...

The summer season is almost here. Nature bursts forth in gloriously bright colours and encourages us to respond with summer tones. I'm d...

Merci à B&P 

"Buy the absolute best you can afford. Fine clothes will last ten times longer than cheap, shoddy merchandise, will feel and fit better...

If you see me smiling, it is because I have something big, hard, and shiny up my sleeve. The exclusive photo (at left) shows my new timepiec...

 "I'm not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop." 

Dominica, West Indies We were tired and we were sore and more than a little nervous as we rode up to the timbered bungalow. On the lawn t...

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I am not as a rule given to excessive televisual entertainment. But this past weekend, felled by a severe 36-hour gut-cramping illness cause...

Note the trout in black tie at lower right

"Stephen Tennant was a work-in-progress. Born in 1906 as the youngest son of the newly ennobled Baron Glenconner, his life was an expec...

"Gin, lace and backbiting"

"As he passes the stretch of green at Cheyne Walk, presided over by a statue of Sir Thomas More, he sees a man in a tweed jacket practi...

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