EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Duchess of Bedford becomes New Zealand 国民 at the age of 84 because ‘England doesn’t feel like it used to’

Her beauty propelled her into Country Life magazine as one of its 'girls in pearls' and to the threshold of a film career, only for her to 放棄する 'lights, camera, 活動/戦闘!' in favour of marrying the 未来 14th Duke of Bedford, owner of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, with its 24 priceless Canalettos, not to について言及する a safari park.

But, now 老年の 84, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford has undertaken her 最新の 変形. Henrietta's become a Kiwi ― taking New Zealand 市民権.

The Duchess 設立する the initiation 儀式 a particular 楽しみ. 'I didn't realise I was going to have to 支払う/賃金 忠誠 to King Charles,' she says. 'Such a lovely feeling.'

Explaining her 推論する/理由s for emigrating, she says: 'It feels like England used to. England doesn't feel like it used to when I was a child.'

As a debutante in 1957, her parents held a party for her at Claridge's in a room transformed into a nightclub, its 塀で囲むs studded with silk バタフライs.

Not, perhaps, やめる what the Duchess was referring to.

Now aged 84, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford has undertake
n her latest transformation - she has become a Kiwi

Now 老年の 84, the Dowager Duchess of Bedford has undertaken her 最新の 変形 - she has become a Kiwi

Henrietta Tiarks (later Henrietta Russell, Marchioness of Tavistock and Duchess of Bedford) models a hat in a hat shop in 1957

Henrietta Tiarks (later Henrietta Russell, Marchioness of Tavistock and Duchess of Bedford) models a hat in a hat shop in 1957

The Duchess at her wedding to?Henry Robin Ian Russell, the Marquess of Tavistock in 1961

The Duchess at her wedding to?Henry コマドリ Ian Russell, the Marquess of Tavistock in 1961?

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Very modern manners?

It's just 同様に that Abbey Clancy and the ex-England footballer Peter Crouch can afford 航空機によるs' 超過 luggage 料金s.

When the Liverpudlian model, 38, and her husband, who have four children, were asked if they had any 計画(する)s for the next fortnight after returning from a 最近の holiday in Dubai, he turned to his wife and asked: 'You're just going to unpack, aren't you, for another two weeks?'

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Lumley's candelit beauty secrets

Evergreen Dame Joanna Lumley is fed up with the poor lighting in hotel bathrooms.

'What women hate is a 最高の,を越す light in the bathroom because you can't do your make-up,' wails the 78-year-old 星/主役にする of 絶対 Fabulous and The New Avengers.?

'So いつかs I come out looking a bit weird because I've either been doing make-up by candlelight or torchlight ― it's 利益/興味ing and a challenge.'

Evergreen Dame Joanna Lumley is fed up with the poor lighting in hotel bathrooms

Evergreen Dame Joanna Lumley is fed up with the poor lighting in hotel bathrooms

Dame Joanna 追加するs of her television 外見s: 'I am very 感謝する to テレビ視聴者s who say good things even when I am a bit crumpled.'

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に引き続いて her father into comedy was always going to be a challenge for John Cleese's daughter Camilla, but now she's trying to use it to her advantage.

'She's written a sitcom called Nepo Baby,' 明らかにする/漏らすs the Monty Python 星/主役にする, 84. 'It's very funny.'?

The 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 'nepo baby' 言及するs to children of famous people みなすd to have used their family 関係s to 後継する in careers 類似の to those of their parents.

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Who says there's no money in 令状ing 調書をとる/予約するs these days?

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl On The Train, has managed to amass £18.5 million.

Newly published 人物/姿/数字s for her company, Paula Hawkins Ltd, into which she channels her 収入s, 明らかにする/漏らす she snapped up £320,000 価値(がある) of art 作品 last year.

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl On The Train, has managed to amass £18.5 million

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl On The Train, has managed to amass £18.5 million

The 購入(する)s bring the value of the art owned by her through the 商売/仕事 to £2.3 million.?

The professor's daughter, 51, has also 投資するd her 王族s in 所有物/資産/財産 at £1.7 million, 加える £9.9 million in other 投資s, 同様に as 保持するing £4.4 million in ready cash.

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Is that 先頭 the Man - or just a cabbie?

Sir 先頭 Morrison enjoyed 記録,記録的な/記録するing at the Wool Hall so much that he 結局 bought the studio 近づく Bath in Somerset.

During one of his many 開会/開廷/会期s there, the staff について言及するd that they were having a party later that evening, and that he would be welcome to come along.

'Nobody 現実に 推定する/予想するd the famously grumpy musician to 現実に turn up,' 報告(する)/憶測s コマドリ Askew in his new 調書をとる/予約する, The West's Greatest 激しく揺する Shows. 'But that's what he did.

'式のs, when he rang the bell, the door was opened by someone who didn't have a faintest idea that the man standing before him was the world's least starry 激しく揺する legend.

'So he turned and shouted 支援する into the room, 'Did anyone order a cab?'

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West End live show for TV's Naked Attraction?

Here's a 調印する of how much the West End has changed since 1968 when many theatregoers walked out after the cast of the musical Hair appeared from behind a sheet fully naked, 詠唱するing the words: 'Beads, flowers, freedom, and happiness.'

Now, a 行う/開催する/段階 is to be filled with nude 団体/死体s ― and there will be no sheet.?

Anna Richardson, host of Naked Attraction, says discussions have begun about a West End 見解/翻訳/版 of the Channel 4 dating show, in which a 着せる/賦与するd singleton is 現在のd with a gallery of six nude 可能性のある partners and chooses a date based on their せいにするs.

Anna Richardson (pictured), host of Naked Attraction, says discussions have begun about a West End version of the Channel 4 dating show

Anna Richardson (pictured), host of Naked Attraction, says discussions have begun about a West End 見解/翻訳/版 of the Channel 4 dating show

She tells me: 'We're in 会談 to do Naked Attraction Live as a theatre show, which would be amazing.'

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Jeremy Clarkson is ありそうもない to be raising a glass this 週末 to James May, his co-星/主役にする on The Grand 小旅行する.

May owns the 王室の Oak, in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire, but says he won't serve Clarkson's Hawkstone beer.?

'The brewery making his beer is 80-加える miles away from the pub and we do have a 政策 of trying to use 地元の beers for the same 推論する/理由 Clarkson's farm shop is supposed to only use 製品s within 12 or 15 miles,' he explains.

Jeremy Clarkson is unlikely to be raising a glass this weekend to James May, his co-star on The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson is ありそうもない to be raising a glass this 週末 to James May, his co-星/主役にする on The Grand 小旅行する

Instead, he serves beers brewed by film director Guy Ritchie.?

'It doesn't really make sense for us to suddenly have a Cotswolds boutique beer in a pub in south Wiltshire when we've got Guy Ritchie's brewery a few miles up the road that's producing very good beer for us.'?

Clarkson is said to be 注目する,もくろむing up his own pub, the Grade II-名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d Coach and Horses, 近づく his Hawkstone Brewery in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

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Andi Oliver, who 取って代わるd Prue Leith as a 裁判官 on BBC2 show 広大な/多数の/重要な British Menu, is fed up with the 傾向 for boozers 存在 turned into pompous dining rooms.

'So many pubs are now essentially restaurants,' she tells me at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards at The 王室の 交流 in London.?

The chef, 61 this month, explains: 'You often have to 調書をとる/予約する a (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する ― it 運動s me 絶対 up the 塀で囲む. They need to stop it.?

You should just be able to go in, have a game of pool, drink and have a laugh.' The author of The Pepperpot Diaries cookbook used to run the award-winning restaurant Andi's in Stoke Newington, and is the former creative director of the Birdcage pub in the East End.?

She 追加するs: 'I tried to keep my restaurants very pubby.'