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Mystery man in Duchess of Argyll sex scandal ID’d

By David K. Li

December 29, 2013 | 3:05pm

An American airline executive was the mystery man involved in a salacious, extramarital affair that rocked proper British circles five decade ago.

The divorce of socialite Margaret Campbell — known as the Duchess of Argyll — from her husband shocked prim-and-proper Great Britain in 1963 when pictures emerged in court of her performing sex acts on an unidentified man, whose head was cut out of the image.

That mystery man was William “Bill” Lyons, then the sales director of Pan American World Airways, according to the duchess’ daughter-in-law.

“For 50 years it has been safely, maybe too safely, kept – for in keeping it, we have also perpetuated the mystery, and in so doing we have done Margaret’s reputation no favors,” Lady Colin Campbell wrote in a first-person piece for The Daily Mail.

Campbell said is was the Duchess of Argyll herself who told her the mystery lover was Lyons.

“He [Lyons] was sophisticated, debonair, dapper, well-bred, charming and handsome,” according to Campbell. “Like her first husband Charlie, he was sexy and great fun. He was reliable and astute.”

She added: “To those of us who were close to her it was hardly a surprise. Bill was her lover, after all.”

The Duchess of Argyll died in 1993 at the age of 80.

Para qué luego digan que el traje de novia es para un día solamente...

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James Blunt se compromete con Sofia Wellesley, nieta del duque de Wellington

Han pasado ocho años desde que James Blunt conquistara al mundo con su tema You're beautiful, y ahora, después de haber vendido 20 millones de álbumes en todo el mundo, el cantante nacido en Inglaterra en 1974 tiene una gran noticia que celebrar: su compromiso. James acaba de anunciar que contraerá matrimonio con Sofia Wellesley, nieta del duque de Wellington, con la que comenzó a salir a principios de 2012. La pareja, que fue presentada por la hermana de Blunt, aún no ha dado a conocer la fecha de su boda, pero lo que está claro es que vivirán una de sus Navidades más mágicas.

Compromiso matrimonial del heredero del Duque de Buccleuch, el Earl of Dalkeith.

Earl of Dalkeith to marry Elizabeth Cobbe
The engagement was announced 12 December, 2013, between Walter John Francis Scott, formerley Montagu Douglas Scott, styled Earl of Dalkeith (b 8 Aug, 1984), elder son and heir of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, KBE, DL (b 1954), by his wife the former Lady Elizabeth Marian Frances Kerr (b 1954), scion of the Marquesses of Lothian, & Elizabeth Hanar Cobbe (born 1986), scion of that Irish gentry family of Newbridge House, Dublinounger younger daughter of Mr Hugh Michael Thomas Cobbe (b 1942), of East Woodhay, Hampshire, by his wife the former Katherine Elizabeth Chichester, dau of Charles Chichester. The Cobbe forebears include Frankland baronets, Arbuthnots and John Jay (1745-1829), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers -- co-author of the "Federalist Papers" and first chief justice of the United States. ¨

La pareja:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2013123016312/james-blunt-engaged-girlfriend-sofia-wellesley/





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2530973/James-Blunt-marry-Duke-Wellingtons-girl-Couple-got-engaged-Christmas.html

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet

El árbol genealógico de la novia está muy interesante. Incluye también una Begum india.

http://heirsofeurope.blogspot.de/2013/12/buccleuch-and-queensberry.html

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet

En algunas de las fotos, James Blunt parece un enano al lado de su novia. ¿Se tratará de un caso como
el de Tom Cruise?

Kinvara Balfour, sobrina del Duque de Norfolk, concede una entrevista al Telegraph.

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG10608485/Lessons-from-the-Stylish-Kinvara-Balfour-creative-director.html

Estudió en el St. Mary's Ascot, el mismo colegio al que va Victoria de Marichalar y que es el tradicional de la aristocracia católica en Inglaterra.



It's hardly surprising that Balfour, who is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, is an over-the-knee kind of girl. Her first job was with Norman Hartnell, who dressed the Queen and the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. She later worked for Tomasz Starzewski, who made power suits for Margaret Thatcher and the Princess of Wales.

Balfour grew up surrounded by fashion. Her aunt Carina Frost [wife of the late David] was a supermodel of her day, working for Biba and Ossie Clark, and her mother, Tessa, is effortlessly glamorous - and a demon on the sewing machine. "She once made a pencil skirt that we all loved so much that she ended up making it 17 times over for me and my two sisters, and all our relations. There's a photograph of us all wearing it." Meanwhile, she still counts her grandmother, who lives 10 doors down from her in Earl's Court, as one of the chicest women she knows. "She's used Clarins skincare all her life and Fenwick and Peter Jones are her stores," she says. "She'll wear a tweed trouser with a bit of a heel and a silk scarf and pearls and look incredible."

Maybe you can have too much elegance, though, as by the time Balfour was 15, she'd entered a punk phase and the grungy Kensington Market in West London was her spiritual home. "My sweet nanny marched me up and down the King's Road from the age of six, so the punk movement became a part of my life," she says. "There used to be 20 or 30 proper punks outside the Chelsea registry office every day. I miss them."

Her dreams of designing for royalty were met the following year when she entered a competition advertised at her boarding school, St Mary's Ascot. "It was sponsored by Lloyds and I had to sketch an outfit for the Queen to wear to the bank," Balfour explains.Her design, which comprised a dress made of banknotes, a cat burglar mask and a handbag in the shape of a gun, earned her a place in the final, judged by Vivienne Westwood.

"I went up to London with my mother and two friends from school and was amazed to see my design being worn by a model on the catwalk," she says. "I ended up winning the whole thing and went on Blue Peter and This Morning."

By her mid-twenties Balfour was installed back in the old guard of fashion as head of couture for Tomasz Starzewski. She delivered garments to Princess Diana, at Kensington Palace - including the spotty dress with gold buttons that she wore to meet Nelson Mandela - as well as taking trunk shows to New York.

Lady Kinvara, perfil en Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Kinvara_Balfour

Hija del 5° Conde Balfour.

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet

Un tema del que no sé nada, y que propongo para aquello@s foristas más avezados se mojen si interesa, es el de las familias católicas en la aristocracia británica. No sólo el elenco de las mismas, sino las vicisitudes por las que estas han pasado...

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Tendremos una nueva serie sobre el reinado de Charles II, The Great Fire, producida por ITV.

Lo interesante es que algunos de los actores protagonistas son descendientes de la aristocracia más rancia.

Jack Huston interpretará a Charles II. Desciende de la dinastía de actores Huston, pero su madre es hermana del Marqués de Cholmondeley. Hijo de Lady Margot Lavinia.

Rose Leslie interpretará a una mujer "del pueblo". Ella es hija del Jefe del Clan Leslie.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a555245/game-of-thrones-stars-to-lead-itvs-new-drama-the-great-fire.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Huston



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Leslie

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet

El duque de Westminster por enésima vez el hombre más rico de Inglaterra:

http://www.noblesseetroyautes.com/2014/03/le-duc-de-westminster-1ere-fortune-de-grande-bretagne/

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/17/oxfam-report-scale-britain-growing-financial-inequality

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet

Fiesta de 70 anhos de Sir Michael Pakenham:

http://www.tatler.com/bystander/events/2014/february/sir-michael-pakenhams-70th-birthday#!/13578/image/1


Lady Pakenham and Stanley Johnson


Comtesse de Ponton D'Amecourt and Comte de Ponton D'Amecourt


Viscountess Norwich and Count Macchi di Cellere


Lady Antonia Fraser, Sir Michael Pakenham and Lady Rachel Billington


Viscountess Camrose and Sir Patrick Fairweather


Kevin Pakenham and Sir Alistair Horne

http://img.tatler.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/600x400/a_c/2418691_600x400.jpg
Lady Hastings, Sir Max Hastings and Lady Guthrie


Lord Weidenfeld


Baroness Rawlings, Lord Hollick and Lady Hollick


Lady Cohen and Lady Weidenfeld


Viscount Norwich and Lord Magan


Leonard Blavatnik and Lord Rothschild

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"I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like to dance",
Lilibet