With the Queen’s Jubilee celebration coming up, I feel I should write a blog about a somewhat random association with one of my scarves....

It will take all your imaginative powers to connect oysters and cloisters! Quite simply, the link is my scarf! It’s silk, with hand sewn...

My grandfather started life as a young stable lad at Blenheim Palace. By his late teens he had worked his way to become coachman. Life in...