Ten eight-foot-tall, laser-cut drummers stand proud in the ballroom, a kinetic sculpture of five gold-leaf gilded rings is suspended from the picture gallery while model geese nest in Fabergé eggs.
The ‘New Conservatives’ are the latest hard right rebel group to enter Rishi Sunak’s crowded factional horizon. They join a long line of party caucuses jostling for political space.
The Christmas party season will never be the same. I can disclose that Jeffrey Archer and his wife, Mary, are to give their last ever champagne & shepherd s pie next month.
Emma Manners, 60, donned a black and white floral coat for her dinner at Loulou s Members Club with daughter Violet, 30. The duchess lives with her estranged husband, the Duke of Rutland.
For the third consecutive year, a dark and sinister force is at play, abetted by a cynical right-wing press, attempting to present Europe’s biggest conservation charity as some kind of dangerously radical cake-and-countryside organisation.