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Unsung Heroes
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House of Lords
once a NOBLE HOUSE My Peerage is hereditary although our family title, created in 1933, is quite a new one. This was the year when my great grandfather, Charles Nall-Cain, after whom I was named, was raised from a Baronetage … Continue reading
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Dream Machines
Go for a spin down Memory Lane and remember some classic cars that made British motoring great THE CAR: BIRKIN BLOWER BENTLEY 1929 THE ENTHUSIAST: Lord Charlie Brocket, aristocrat, celebrity, former jailbird, writer, car fanatic and all-round loveable rogue Think … Continue reading
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Ocean 7
PLAYTIME Amid the opulence of superyacht cruising, it is easy to overlook the evident reality that your private floating palace doesn’t just have a pool, it has an ocean. Lord Brocket took his family aboard Ocean Seven, to test how … Continue reading
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Ritz Cuban Tobacco – Strike a Light
If Nero fiddled while Rome burned then, with the dire state that the Cuban economy is in (let alone its people), it seemed to me that most of the island was dancing the salsa while the rest of the world … Continue reading
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Ritz Maybach Mean Machine
Maybach 57s Let’s pretend that you are a relative of ET, our friendly rubber-faced alien, and that you have just spent a few earthly minutes on-line or thumbing through directories researching hotels. You then wake up in the Prince of … Continue reading
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Ritz SSK Auto Erotica
How many people own a Monet and really know about his life and what inspired the artist? How many wealthy people who own a Botticelli or a Titian actually don’t know what happened during the Renaissance to give birth to … Continue reading
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Hello! France
WITH THE FAMILY RETURNING TO THE ROOST LORD AND LADY BROCKET INVITE US INTO THE FRENCH VILLA WHERE THEY WED AND REVEAL THEIR BABY HOPES ‘I am thrilled to have the children back. Family matters so much through good times and bad’ … Continue reading
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Hello! Baby Announcement
EXCLUSIVE PICTURES AND INTERVIEW: IN A PLACE CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS LORD AND LADY BROCKET ARE OVERJOYED TO ANNOUNCE THEIR BABY NEWS ‘Having a baby is the most exciting thing you can do as a couple and it sets the … Continue reading
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Hello! Honeymoon in India
SETTING THE SEAL ON AN EVENTFUL YEAR LORD AND LADY BROCKET ENJOY A LATE, LAVISH HONEYMOON IN ROMANTIC RAJASTHAN Harriet and Charlie, who married in France in June (top left), spent part of their honeymoon at the Devi Garh Fort Palace. The 18th-century … Continue reading
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Hello! Wedding
Lord Brocket marries Harriet Warren in a sun-dappled ceremony at their home in the South of France
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Hello! Engagement
PHOTOGRAPHED IN HIS LONDON FLAT LORD BROCKET AND HARRIET WARREN TALK FRANKLY ABOUT THEIR TURBULENT RELATIONSHIP AND SURPRISE ENGAGEMENT ‘Being close to someone is a nice thing. Men like the novelty of a new relationship; making it work is much harder’ Charlie … Continue reading
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Mugging in Langton st
999 calls Yesterday’s Evening Standard paper ran a front page article proclaiming me as a hero for saving two sisters from machete wielding muggers. This was rubbish and hid the real issue behind the whole incident. What I did was … Continue reading
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Mobile Madness
I am sad to report yet more daft behaviour to make our day just that bit more irritating. Today when the mobile phone companies are prostrating themselves to attract customers as recession looms, think very hard before signing up with … Continue reading
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Shakti. The camp in the sky.
For Country Life I remember my first journey to the Mara only too well. Full of excitement we flew from Nairobi in the most famous of all workhorses of the sky, a Dakota, adored by the Berliners for the round-the-clock … Continue reading
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Railway Robbery
Notes on transport madness What really crossed up my internal wiring last weekend was my inability to process what had happened into any kind of logical place in my mind. My wife was traveling by rail having shown her young … Continue reading
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Government’s astonishing DVLA cash-cow
Indirect taxation now means that UK residents are now amongst the highest taxed people in the world. It seems that the government’s aim is to tax literally everything that we do and soon they will charge us to spend a … Continue reading
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To Pee or not to Pee
Today I took my wife to Floridita’s, the Cuban bar in Wardour Street, to deliver some pictures for her forthcoming exhibition. I pulled up on a single yellow line where loading and unloading is permitted. After a couple of minutes … Continue reading
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Palaces in Wonderland
Mail on Sunday. The obvious words come to mind when thinking of India. Stunning colours, fragrant aromas, frenetic activity and a land of contradictions. Reality, though, is not what you see and if you banish all preconceptions, accept nothing and … Continue reading
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