Royal Wedding 5. April 2011
Dear Rowley, One of the left wing media whinge monkeys on Radio 4 contemplated this morning whether the Royal Wedding was the beginning of the end for European monarchies: a last gasp before the entire...
View ArticleA STATE VISIT MAY 2011
Dear Rowley, Isn’t The Queen on a roll? HM triumphed at the Royal Wedding, rocked it out in Ireland and showed President Obama how it’s done at the State Dinner last night. It is heaven to see the...
View ArticleMasterpiece. June 2012.
Dear Rowley, Lovely to see Chrissie Evert and Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon on first week Saturday. Chris is commentating and Martina is in the Royal Box. Serena Williams is on court and serving up...
View ArticleDiamonds: A Jubilee Celebration. July 2012.
Dear Rowley, A very rare treat yesterday afternoon. As you know, I’m working on another Luxury Lookback for ITV This Morning next Wednesday about Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration at Buckingham Palace....
View ArticleEmerald Eyes. March 2013.
Dear Rowley, Doesn’t it always amuse when party planning and common sense threaten to collide? I only ask having been on La Farmer’s arm last week to attend the unveiling of an exceptional collection...
View ArticleKeeping Up Appearances. June 2013.
Dear Rowley, Congratulations to The Queen who is the first reigning monarch to win the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in the race’s 207-year history. Thanks to the zoom lens, it was rather a picture to see...
View ArticleThe Coronation Festival. July 2013.
Dear Rowley, You’re not the first to contact Bloomsbury Towers and ask when they can view the body. Well, I’m not ready for the pall bearers and requiem mass quite yet and have in fact been hush-hush...
View ArticlePrince George. October 2013.
Dear Rowley, Are we, one wonders, heading for a Scandinavian monarchy when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge inherit the British throne? Prince George’s christening in the Chapel Royal of St. James’s...
View ArticleBenidorm. April 2014.
Dear Rowley, Do forgive the radio silence. I’ve just been taken on my first holiday in over two years. Where did we choose? Benidorm. Which hotel did we end up booking? The Melia where all the cast and...
View ArticleDuty Call. May 2015.
Dear Rowley, Weren’t you shocked to hear that FIFA is run by porcine, money grubbing lardy cake males with greasy palms and laxer morals than a dope peddler haunting the backstreets of Tangier? No, me...
View ArticleTiara-Bum-Di-Hey. October 2015.
Dear Rowley, La Farmer and I feel vindicated in our ongoing commitment to boozy London lunches. Yesterday saw us at the divine Arbutus on Frith Street in Soho in the company of Aspasia ‘Love Gold’...
View ArticleTantrums & Tiaras. December 2015.
Dear Rowley, Finally getting into the Christmas spirit thanks to the glorious gang known as The Tiara Club. The Tiara Club was formed when Sam ‘Lucas Rarities’ Loxton and his glamorous assistant...
View ArticleTrooping the Colour. June 2016.
Dear Rowley, HM The Queen has already lived and reigned longer than any other monarch in British history. This weekend, to mark her official birthday, more flags were put out for Trooping the Colour:...
View ArticleShine It On. December 2016.
Dear Rowley, There is one thing I envy about women over and above a preternatural ability to multi-task and instinctive emotional intelligence and that is the exclusive right to wear a tiara. Apart...
View ArticleMother Love. July 2017.
Dear Rowley, The Princes William and Harry have been criticised in the press for speaking candidly from the heart about the death of their mother, Diana Princess of Wales twenty years ago. The concern...
View ArticleWandering Hands. January 2018.
Dear Rowley, As Dame Maggie Smith replied to a gauche journalist who greeted her with ‘you look great’, ‘Well dear I’ve looked greater’. Having had blonde highlights to cheer myself up in the dread...
View ArticleThe Prince and the Showgirl. April 2018.
Dear Rowley, As Miss Midler once said, ‘I’m not retiring and you can’t make me’. The most recent bout of ‘the troubles’ seems to be coming to a close. On paper I’ve had two laptops, three iPhones, an...
View ArticleMiss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. May 2018.
Dear Rowley, If there was a BAFTA or an EMMY for costume design on television the winner hands down would be Marion Boyce who has dressed Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher for three seasons of Miss Fisher’s...
View ArticleMarkle Debacle. May 2018.
Dear Rowley, Families, eh? Don’t say I didn’t warn you about Meghan Markle’s engagement and wedding to Prince Harry. Now it appears that Thomas Marlke, father of the bride, has been colluding with the...
View ArticleI Do. I Do. May 2018.
Dear Rowley, Not minutes after the erstwhile Ms Meghan Markle walked alone up the aisle of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, do we have carping about the absolutely gorgeous wedding gown Givenchy’s Claire...
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