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Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966
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Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air.
Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, showering glass everywhere. An electrician has been summoned. Happily, the television remained on.
“Do I have Netflix?” She feigns astonishment at my question. “Is the Pope a Catholic?” The delights of Netflix – or “Lady Nettie” as she calls it – are something the family talks about all the time. She is particularly fond of Shtisel, a subtitled Israeli soap opera set in a Hassidic community in Jerusalem. “Akive,” she sighs, recalling the good-looking, permanently bewilder
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The shotgun slung over the shoulder readily identified him as Lucknow‘s most erratic yet brilliant citizen. Dr. John Hutchison Garnier gained wide notoriety as the area’s most accomplished physician, naturalist, playwright, and eccentric.
Garnier was born in Scotland probably in 1823. He claimed descent from a Scottish Catholic mother and a father descended from a distinguished French Huguenot military family that fled persecution in France. His bicultural upbringing made him fluent in English and French. He studied medicine at both the University of Dublin and in Paris.
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