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Peter Zinovieff, electronic music composer who built one of the first mass-market synthesisers – obituary

Peter Zinovieff, electronic music composer who built one of the first mass-market synthesisers – obituary
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How Cecil Beaton offended the Queen Mother

How Cecil Beaton offended the Queen Mother
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Don't believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders

Don’t believe The Pursuit of Love – not all aristocrats are bigots, buffoons and bounders
Are the English upper classes an absurd alien race? The makers of The Pursuit of Love – and many more TV dramas – certainly seem to think so
Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love
Credit: BBC
Emily Mortimer’s production of The Pursuit of Love presented her with an interesting conundrum. She was not just bringing the eccentric aristocracy to the screen, she was adapting them from Nancy Mitford’s adaptation, so she was already two steps away. A series such as The Crown is easier to dissect since it is the fictionalisation of real life people – it makes no attempt at reality at all, but does the unforgivable thing of creating cooked up situations for real people to the point that a large number of viewers – and even documentary makers - believe it to be true.

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ALISON BOSHOFF: The bonkers baron whose life was a pursuit of hedonism

The bonkers baron whose life was a pursuit of hedonism: He inspired the wildest character in the BBC's new drama, but from dyed doves and dogs in pearls to riotous parties, Lord Berners was even barmier, writes ALISON BOSHOFF
The 14th Baron of Berners was a true bon vivant of the early 20th century who entertained everyone from Salvador Dali to Evelyn Waugh
He made such an impression on Nancy Mitford that she based Lord Merlin, the outrageous aesthete in her 1945 novel The Pursuit Of Love on him
Berners adored pranks and practical jokes, and once even placed an advertisement in The Times newspaper offering two elephants for sale

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HUGO VICKERS discusses Diana's racy dress and more delicious gossip from his scintillating diaries

When Hugo Vickers was commissioned in 1980 to write the authorised biography of Cecil Beaton, he was granted privileged access to the photographer’s friends and staff — and all his private diaries and letters.
Many of Beaton’s circle had been the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 1920s. Others were louche aristocrats, renowned former beauties, movie stars and writers, not to mention Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother.
By then in their 70s and 80s, most welcomed the chance to gossip. Over the next five years, Vickers asked them about everything from Cecil’s homosexuality to his extraordinary costume designs for My Fair Lady and his bizarre love affair with Greta Garbo. Many of their recollections duly appeared in Vickers’ best-selling biography.

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Faringdon Folly, Oxfordshire: A Gothic tower built in the 1930s by 'the last great eccentric'

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Atop Folly Hill, Faringdon Folly is just the latest landmark at a spot with an astonishing mix of history.
The winds of the five counties on the horizon whistle around your head as you climb the hill to Faringdon Folly, a 100ft-tall Gothic tower built in 1935 by the ‘last great eccentric’ Lord Berners in honour of his companion Robert Heber-Percy.
The room at the top of Faringdon Folly.
This strategic hilltop within the Vale of the White Horse was once the site of a Celtic ring camp, a medieval castle occupied by Queen Matilda, a Cromwellian battery and a Home Guard observation post.

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Champagne with Bacon: at the bar with a giant of British art

Francis Bacon in his studio, 1967
Credit: Ian Berry/Magnum Photos
It was dark outside but, in the lamplit tobacco clouds of the Colony Room Club in Soho, the proprietor Ian Board, his great swollen nose flushed with anger, had hopped down from his barstool perch by the door and was shouting at Francis Bacon with cries like a dog’s bark, his voice rough as a cheese-grater.
Grabbing an umbrella from the back of the stool, he began to belabour the world’s foremost artist about the shoulders as he edged out of the door into the steep, black well of the stairs down to the street. “You can’t f------ paint!” yelled Board at Bacon descending the twisting steps, as lobbed ballpoint pens (kept for signing in guests) bounced off his jacket.

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