{"id":2392,"date":"2011-07-05T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2011-07-05T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:49:56","slug":"my-visit-to-debo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"My Visit to Debo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 5th<\/sup> July 2011<\/p>\n

Saturday I wore my new baby-blue summer jeans by Lindberg and a polo-shirt by Joseph adored in previous years, for my visit to Debo.<\/p>\n

Oh it was rare! But I went off the polo-shirt half way there. This often happens with frockage got out of the cupboard for the first time in a season.<\/p>\n

Few knew that you could visit Debo. It was only 157 miles each way. I mean Debo Devonshire, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last of the Mitfords, now 91. But I received private information. But Rufus Pitman poo-pooed. He said he sees her all the time, on visits to Chatsworth from his parents\u2019 home. Harry Rollo has also encountered her in the grounds there. Poor Little Rich Gays love Debo \u2013 dripping with money and titles, Vel\u00e1zquez in her private sitting room, but absolute uproar and thrill when she applies the pen. Always doing up houses, putting in bathrooms, but taken with the idea that she might get away with not changing the sheets after Alec Douglas-Home only spent one night \u2013 because of \u00a0a diversion from Row to Manchester on the way back from the funeral of President Kennedy. Princess Margaret, next in the bed, would never notice.<\/p>\n

What a story that is! Royalty, the Prime Ministerial aeroplane, the Prime Minister of the day, \u00a0President Kennedy (the present mini-series the only thing PLRGs are watching on TV) pinned around \u00a0a domestic aspect of bed linen.<\/p>\n

Now, after the death of her husband, Andrew Devonshire, Debo lives in a small mansion, called The Old Vicarage. And this is the thing, you see. It\u2019s a big premises but it\u2019s butted right up against all the other houses in the village of Edensor, on the Chatsworth estate. Every July they have Edensor Gardens Open Day. O! the radiant simplicity of it! Debo joins in. Other gardens are open, so why not hers? Even her house, I was told by top sources, is accessible; you can find her in the kitchen requiring the butler to dispense eggs from her upmarket chickens to passing members of the public.<\/p>\n

So absolutely nothing for it but to pound forth, 157 miles and arrive in my big black car with Xenon driving lights, in an outfit for a village event of cream teas, brass band and tombola, as well as toilets, not resembling, it is fair to say, any other get-up present.<\/p>\n

But Debo had gone in. In the summer house she\u2019d been signing books. \u00a0I missed her. And the house wasn\u2019t open. There was a notice saying: \u2018House not open. Sorry\u2019. I do hope Debo\u2019s not breaking up. I do hope there\u2019ll be another chance next year.<\/p>\n

The Late Queen Mother dipped in her early nineties then revived for another ten years.<\/p>\n

All the same, by straining just a little, I glimpsed a coiffure in what appeared to be the kitchen. Maybe it was hers. On the other hand, the view of her fabric conditioners was excellent.<\/p>\n

\"Debo's

Debo's Fabric Conditioners and Washing Liquids<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Debo's

Debo's Premises<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Debo's

Debo's Summerhouse, Where She Signed Books Earlier, Missed by Me <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Debo's

Debo's Sculptural Detail <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Andrew

Andrew Devonshire's Tombstone<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kick's

Kick's Grave: She Sister of Pres Kennedy, Married to Andrew's Older Brother Killed in the War. She Died 1948. Stone Below Marks Visit to Grave of Pres Kennedy Months Before His own Death<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday 5th July 2011 Saturday I wore my new baby-blue summer jeans by Lindberg and a polo-shirt by Joseph adored in previous years, for my visit to Debo. Oh it was rare! But I went off the polo-shirt half way there. This often happens with frockage got out of the cupboard for the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}