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CLASS WAR! • No more debs at court – today’s social rites of passage come with aprons or art history. It’s Ballymaloe versus John Hall Venice: which one shows you’ve arrived?
BILLIONHEIR FILES • How sweet it is to be Nick and Holly Candy, Reform UK’s new darlings, with pop fame, penthouses and a place at the heart of the social elite
THE SWEET LIFE
THE IT List • Ten Tatler-approved holiday must-haves
Eat, Fay, love • A wander to Wandsworth proves to be worth the journey as Fay Maschler visits local legend Chez Bruce
CHEZ MWAH! • It’s chef’s kisses all round for Chez Bruce’s near-namesake establishments around the globe
Lady Jopling’s Dundee Cake
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTTING • If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Notting Hill. Canteen is society’s latest obsession. Who goes there, what do they order – and how do they get a table?
COUTURE REPORT
Are you FUR REAL? • FENDI, HOUSE OF COVETABLE COUTURE AND STATUS BAGS, IS CELEBRATING A CENTURY. CHANDLER TREGASKES JOINS THE PARTY
A ROMAN EMPIRE • Chandler Tregaskes goes backstage at Milan Fashion Week to mingle with the Fendis and a coterie of double-F-logo-clad aficionados
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LOVE ALL • Play a jewellery ace this summer with a sporty yet sophisticated tennis necklace. See you on court…
Rose to the OCCASION • From Westeros to Warwickshire: Rose Leslie takes centre stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in a role Ingrid Bergman made famous on Broadway. Has the Game of Thrones wildling gone soft – or is this her boldest act yet? By Annabel Sampson
ROLES, ROSE! • CORSETS, CRIME SCENES, FANTASY KINGDOMS… ROSE LESLIE’S SCREEN CAREER RUNS THE FULL RANGE
YES, MAUGHAM! • ROSE LESLIE IS PLAYING HIS ‘CONSTANT WIFE’, BUT SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S OEUVRE HAS INSPIRED SCORES OF ADAPTATIONS. IN 1964, THE NEW YORK TIMES ARCHLY REMARKED THAT, WITHOUT HIS VAST VOLUME OF WORK TO ADAPT, THE BRITISH ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY WOULD HAVE TO SHUT UP SHOP
DAYLIGHT SNOBBERY • Was Maugham haughty, difficult or just plain rude? DJ Taylor, author of The New Book of Snobs, explains
The suite life • Be our guest: at ‘the palace on Park Lane’, a fashion fairtytale comes to life in the capable hands of The Dorchester’s staff
SNAKE IN THE GRASS • EVERY JUNE, KENSINGTON GARDENS TURNS RULE-BREAKING ART AND A SHOWSTOPPER OF 25 YEARS, CHANDLER TREGASKES LOOKS BACK ON INTO A PLAYGROUND FOR RADICAL DESIGN, A PARTY. AS THE SERPENTINE PAVILION CELEBRATES A QUARTER-CENTURY OF SPECTACLE AND SCANDAL
THE FAIR PAVILIONS • For 25 years, the Serpentine has commissioned a star architect to design a new pavilion – part art installation, part cultural hub and always a scene
The £100 MILLION man • He never did become prime minister, but now Michael Gove wields a power that politicians fear even more. In his first interview since slipping into the editor’s chair at The Spectator – snapped up by Sir Paul Marshall in a £100 million deal last year – he shares an afternoon of hot gossip with Eilidh Hargreaves
FOOL’S GOLD • WHEN A SOLID GOLD LAVATORY WAS STOLEN FROM BLENHEIM PALACE, THE HOUSE’S SECURITY WAS CAUGHT WITH ITS TROUSERS DOWN. BUT IS IT JUST FLUSHED CHEEKS THAT LIE BEHIND THE SILENCE FROM THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S FAMILY SEAT? ISOLDE WALTERS...