First, Sasha Swire caused a furore with her candid memoirs about life as the wife of a government minister.
Now, Ann Bracken who is married to Britain s former ambassador to the United States, Lord (Robin) Renwick is shaking up the diplomatic world with an indiscreet account of her life with the great and good in London and Washington.
American-born Lady Renwick s amusing disclosures include being ticked off by the late James Bond star Sir Sean Connery and a relentless pursuit of the rock star Sting. Invited to re-cross the Atlantic [back to Britain], the main reason I agreed to do so was to bring me closer to my long-standing idol, Sting, she writes in her new book, How To Break Into The White House.
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The end of the month means a fresh new crop of interesting films coming to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime but it also means scrambling to say goodbye to all the great movies you forgot about or always meant to get around to but didn’t. You’re looking for the good stuff and you don’t have a lot of time. We get it; we got you covered.
We’ve combed through the sea of outgoing streaming releases to bring these platforms have to offer during this, the twilight of the year’s shortest month. Here there are, 10 of the best movies leaving the major streaming platforms by March 1.
Here’s every bottle of champagne James Bond ever uncorked
From a chilled pint of Pink Pommery ’50 to his favoured Taittinger Blanc de Blanc Brut 1943, these are the bottles of bubbly that made Bond
Words:
James Bond is
not a man of simple tastes. His suits are tailored. His cars are super. He’s jetted off to more exotic locales than we even care to list. And that’s before we even come to his
actual tastes. Thanks to a refined palate (and a presumably bottomless MI6 expense account) 007 enjoys pricey whiskey, Vesper Martinis and that ultimate bubbly indicator of wealth; champagne.