Cramped? Outgrown your current castle and are looking for a property to house your large retinue of assistants, secretaries and semi-enslaved domestic servants? Located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s prime residential avenue, 41 Queen’s Gate offers potential buyers the chance to acquire an extremely rare to market 12-bedroom residence. The Grade II…
Super-premium Ketel One vodka has teamed up with the new generation cooking school, L’atelier des Chefs, to offer an exceptional start to your weekend. Get along to the uber-chic home of gastronomy in Wigmore Street where the evening begins with a vodka master class. You’ll find out everything you need to know about vodka and,…
There are two great things about South Africa. One is that it is in the southern hemisphere, and so it is one half of the perfect life summer in England (Ok, well maybe not this year), and winter 7,000 miles further south. The second is that, unlike almost any other non-European travel hotspot, it is…
When your business empire is about to crumble like a cookie, what should you do? Commission an extravagant building, of course. Preferably one that is architecturally important, carries your name and will some day be consumed by a skyscraper. This is exactly what Henry Villard, one-time president of the Northern Pacific Railway, did in 1868 when…
When I last wrote, I was actually dictating my column from atop the shoulders of the man who carries me from place to place whenever my feet would otherwise have to touch the ground. We were heading toward my spare yacht, as I prepared to embark on a marvellous vacation I’d been waiting all day…
Sometimes, it really is best to copy and paste straight from Wikipedia. Concerning Hogmanay, that most proudly defended and staunchest of Scottish holidays, ‘the etymology of the word is obscure. It may have been introduced to Middle Scots through the Auld Alliance. In 1604, the custom was mentioned in the Elgin Records as hagmonay. The…
Having produced and directed the Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, as well as By Any Means, where we accomplished the somewhat tricky task of travelling by land and sea from Ireland to Australia, I thought I would be more than qualified to get a brand new Jaguar XKR to Germany’s Nurburgring…
“Not flying today, Colonel?” I asked. Now aged 67, the Colonel still spends a month of each year in the air. After 30 years distinguished service (in “the last remaining Regiment never to have been involved in either a TV series or a scandal involving one of the Royal Household staff”), he is now trotting…
The cover shoot for the 24th edition of LUSSO Magazine. Photography by Andrea Carter-Bowman and styling by Thea Lewis.
With four different ski areas, there’s plenty of choice in Chamonix for both gnarly off-pisters and beginners getting the swing of the slopes. If you want a challenge, book a glacier guide and ski the famous ‘Vallee Blanche’ sea of ice. Or, to see Mont Blanc from a safer distance, book a CMBH helicopter tour.…