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“I could no longer stay silent,” said Lady Victoria Hervey. In an interview this week, the aristocratic TV star and journalist, 47, detailed allegations of horrific abuse towards her sister, Lady Isabella Hervey, by Isabella’s ex-husband Christophe de Pauw.
A new book takes us inside the courtroom where the Duchess of Kingston stood trial for bigamy—and became an international sensation.
July 3, 2021 For some, The Grand Tour of the 18th and 19th centuries was a one-off trip. For others it became a lifestyle. Carla Passino takes a look at some of the most famous Britons to split their lives between the UK and the Continent. When Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, embarked on his first trip to Padua, Italy, in 1612, he couldn’t have imagined he’d start a trend that would grip British Society. His experiences in Italy sparked a wave of interest in European travel, which, over time, evolved into the Grand Tour. Most British gentlemen (and the odd lady) spent three years ...
Hulton Archive / Getty Images In the late summer of 1777, anyone standing on the banks of the Gulf of Finland might have beheld a most spellbinding sight: a three-masted maritime marvel of polished wood and golden paint, its sails billowing in the northern wind. On the deck of the yacht, they might have spotted the lone figure of a woman, her eyes fixed on the course of the Neva river flowing towards St Petersburg. If they could have seen inside, they would have found contents as exotic as the ship’s story: a menagerie of animals, including small monkeys; an orchestra; two clergymen (a Cath...
Necrophiliacs and dancing bears: meet the wild artists of the Society of Dilettanti A series of works on show at Sir John Soane’s Museum was funded by an 18th-century group who were truly mad, bad and dangerous to know 20 May 2021 • 5:00am In their cups: various members of the Society of Dilettanti (1778), as painted by Joshua Reynolds Credit: Alamy All the boisterous patrician privilege of the Bullingdon Club crossed with the artistic hunter-gatherer instincts of the Tate trustees: that was, approximately, the Society of Dilettanti, founded in 1734 by some aristocratic courtiers around F...