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Beauty

The Great Cover Up

Even with the most fastidious skincare routine, sometimes your complexion needs a little extra help. Whether it’s tell-tale under-eye shadows, pesky age spots or stubborn...

Arachnophobia

How Maggie the spider made me a man

Meeting Maggie the spider

A scream emanated from the bathroom. ‘What is it?’ came the concerned reply from the bedroom. ‘Spider!’ I reported, as once again I repeated the disagreeable routine of...

Fashion

Wedding guest fashion

WEDDING BELLES

Wedding season is in full swing. You’ve returned the RSVP and bought the present, but what to wear? While we’re not suggesting you go all out to upstage the bride, being a...

Etiquette

How women finally got served in Britain’s restaurants

'Take a seat, madam’

According to popular legend, when Elizabeth I, while still a princess, was released from the Tower by her sister, Queen Mary, in May 1554, she didn’t head for home – she...

Globe Trotter

Amazing wildlife

LEMURS IN MADAGASCARLemurs come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, and are found only on Madagascar. The new Saga Holidays 14-night Madagascar Land of the Lemurs trip...

First Impressions

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: RUTHIE HENSHALL

I can’t bear a tight man

What are you working on? I’m touring with my own show, An Intimate Evening With Ruthie Henshall, and I’ve just brought out a new album. When were you at your happiest? I...

Battle of Hastings

Battle of Hastings: The Duke of Wellington

Local MP

The Luftwaffe obliterated The Swan Inn on 23 May 1943 with the loss of 16 lives. In its place stands a commemorative garden with two simple benches providing areas for...

Home

Flower Power!

Flower Power!

There's nothing like the Chelsea Flower Show to get you inspired. And we think these floral items are blooming lovely...{igallery...

Wines of the week

Best Rosé wines

The best Rosé

When I first started writing for The Lady, I promised I wouldn’t do an ‘It’s May, it must be time for rosé’ column. Well I’m afraid that I’m going to have to break my...

Television

Television review: David Bowie: Five Years

Boys keep swinging

I don’t think it’s hyperbole to describe David Bowie as the most signifi cant, the most influential, solo artist of the pop music era. Sinatra, Presley, arguably even...

Book Reviews

Book Reviews: 24 May

New must reads

OUT NOW THIS BOY: A MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD by Alan Johnson (Bantam Press, £16.99; offer price, £12.99) Another parliamentary Johnson, but not one of those… This one, Alan,...

Film Review

Film review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

To boldly go…

It is such a terrific joy when you see a film that is so brilliant it almost makes up for the many that are just ‘meh’. Much in the way that the novels of Dan Brown and EL...

Modern Manners

The Lady Guide to Modern Manners: 24 May

Puppy Love

Dear Thomas, What do you do if someone says they love their pet more than any human? I couldn’t believe it when a close friend made this declaration. I was hurt to say the...

Restaurants

Review: Gaucho

A vegetarian walks into an Argentine steakhouse on the day of Baroness Thatcher’s funeral. There has to be a joke in it. I am the vegetarian, and the steakhouse is the...

Radio

Radio Review: 24 May

Ghosts of Bush House

We’re not at the stage where all the archive recordings of our broadcast heritage are available, but a lot of progress has been made – 20 years ago, the BBC’s iPlayer would...

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