Thursday 13 May 2021
Have you found yourself frantically researching UK staycations for a special occasion or long-awaited escape? Or perhaps you’ve postponed your big overseas summer trip for a little while longer and now you’re looking for something truly once-in-a-lifetime and unforgettable to do in the UK instead, to fill that holiday void. Alternatively, maybe you’ve just realised that you and your crew deserve something extra-special after a year of repeated lockdowns and mounting, unpredictable challenges. A mix of country and city, grandeur and eccentricity, history and cutting-edge – a stay at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, in London’s Chelsea, with an outing on a classic, vintage train, the British Pullman, A Belmond Train, would satisfy all these criteria. Here’s how.
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Letter to the Editor: Fit for a prince THERE are no records in the Prince of Wales’s diaries or any other royal archives that the Prince had any connection with the Red House in Bournemouth, or ever stayed there. It is true that the then-Prince of Wales, although married and with six children, took Lily Langtry as his mistress. She was not only extremely beautiful, but also intelligent and witty. Several Bournemouth sources state that, rather than simply giving Lily jewellery and gifts, the Prince arranged for the Red House to be built in Bournemouth to her design on land owned by Lord Derby.
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Whether boiled and slathered with butter or fried then served with crab mayonnaise, the Jersey Royal is alwys delicious.
As ashamed as I am to admit it, the entire island of Jersey birthplace of Lillie Langtry, home-in-exile of Charles II and Victor Hugo, festival haven and home to more than 100,000 residents can be summed up in three words: cows and potatoes.
Yes, I know, I know; I’m an ill-informed idiot with fodder for brains and nothing but lunch on his mind. However, I really don’t mean to be rude, but rather to offer the highest compliment. For this Channel isle has not only given us a magnificent, world-conquering mooer renowned for the lush richness of its milk but some of the very finest tubers on earth, too.