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Raining – but heating on at 5? Is that right for June? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Robert Nevil and the Maharajah seem to have turned the corner. Earlier in the week, Sir Squirrel came in with his menacing folder containing designs for Robert Nevil’s catafalque – which wasn’t encouraging. I feared it was going to be the demise of poor Prince Eddy all over again. Now a triumphant drive to San Paolo di Londra for a Service of National Thanksgiving for the Recovery of Robert Nevil and the Maharajah looks more than likely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Duchess Throckmorton (relatively new in the circle but it turns out we’ve always known her and people she knows) went in and tested them for that thing. But it wasn’t that thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s so much going on. Including a new concept – a Sugar Kitchen. I know it sounds a contradiction in terms. But one exists. One’s been found. A much younger man of private means as well as highly placed as to profession united with an older man over twice his age. A Sugar Kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I went to Prague for a week last month. Princess Alexandra said to Anthony Mottram (‘consultant’ of Prague but now sold up) in the box at the Royal Albert Hall, ‘The family love Prague.’ This was 20 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We rarely left the Museum apartment. It was a steady mitel-European life of steady routine with a German emphasis. Anthony Mottram doesn’t eat before 2. After 2 he has cakes, flatbreads, breads stuffed with cheese from Georgina, cold meats and hot meats. At 5 it’s time to go to a gymnasium to sit in a false bicycle for 40 minutes while reading a kindle. After that there is an interlude in Starbucks for tea and teacakes. Then back to the Museum apartment for music practice following which it is time for the restaurant. Once the restaurant is over, it’s Netflix in the private small drawing room on the upper floor of the Museum apartment. Whenever in the small private drawing room, I always made a point of saying, ‘How thankful you must be for this small private drawing room.’ The main salon which occupies almost all of the lower floor (although the hotel bedroom is also there) is quite terrifying. So vast. You couldn’t sit in it alone or even as a pair. So where would Anthony Mottram be without that small private drawing room? Although an oddity of it is the ficus tree in a pot which is now so enormous it’s difficult to get into the room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prague was once famous for its dustbins, which were displayed in rows outside historic buildings. Now it is incredibly tidy. A huge amount of gardening has gone on. No litter, not even in back alleys. It is almost a German city as it once was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was been another improvement. As you know Anthony Mottram almost single-handedly transformed the old Eastern bloc with his enterprise. But one thing stubbornly wouldn’t shift: always hot milk brought with tea. Anthony Mottram would have to say, ‘Tea.. with COLD milk.’ Sometimes even the direct command was ignored or not understand. But now, at last, the message has got through, the penny has dropped. No hot milk with tea. It’s not even thought of. Nothing need be said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It just shows: if you keep on about something for 35 years, eventually a Nation will grasp it. The great ship of state will turn and get it right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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