My Viennese Whirl
I went to a ball in Vienna. Yes, it’s really true. Do you watch Strictly and long to join in? Oh what it would be to waltz graciously in a gilded ballroom, beneath...
Home with angora goats
The other day, Herbert, the curly-fleeced, long-horned Billy goat, the rampant alpha male in Selina Scott’s angora herd, felt the call of spring and, like most males at...
Valencrimes
Valentine's Day isn't just about receiving a card and present from a loved one. Nonetheless, when you open said present, if it is a bit on the naff side it can be a tad...
Meet the lady Freemasons
In terms of gender equality, it’s ironic that the person who has had the most signi cant impact on the matter recently is, as yet, unborn – the Duke and Duchess of...
The day I saved a...
So, the Oscars turned 85 – but remained glamorous as ever. Apart from the awards themselves, there was Shirley Bassey’s triumphant debut at the event; Barbra Streisand’s...
Being photographed
The Hon. Nancy Mitford was one of Britain’s best-loved authors – and the granddaughter of The Lady’s founder, Thomas Gibson Bowles. She wrote several memorable essays for...
Men want Homemakers
Forget sexy glamour models or powerful career women, it seems what single men look for in a long term partner is still a good home maker. A new survey of unmarried men aged...
Travels with my teapot
Most of us are creatures of habit and like to start each day in exactly the same way. In our household, that means that at precisely seven o’clock each morning, our Swan...
Paws for thought
Male lion cubs Kamran and Ketan were born at Bristol Zoo on 9 November last year and like all young felines, large and small, wild and domestic, they are utterly adorable....
Top 10 spring walks
Countless trails weave across our green and pleasant land. Here are 10 to get you started, from age-old pathways sprinkled with history, to countryside...
Perfect age for a baby?
New research by Seven Seas Pregnancy (www.seven-seas.com) has revealed that parents believe the perfect age for a women to have a baby is 26.Although those without children...
Pets over partners
With 27 million pets in the UK, 1 in 2 households owning a pet and an industry worth more than £4billion a year, it’s clear we are a nation in love with our pets, but just...
WANTED: military wives...
Heledd Kendrick remembers the exact moment she first saw her future husband. ‘We met through family friends in Wales,’ she explains. ‘He was on leave from Iraq and was...
Why Fishing Saved My Life
If ever anybody had reason to be depressed, it was Sue Hunter. She’d just been divorced after 17 years of marriage and faced bringing up two children as a single mum. Then,...
Prime Minister's...
When Winston Churchill resigned as her prime minister in 1955, the Queen wrote to him from Windsor Castle: ‘I need not tell you… how severely I shall continue to miss your...
Men Three Times More...
A new study has revealed men are three times as likely to lie as women, with the average man lying three times every single day – or more than 1,000 times each year. In...
Dame Helen’s hair...
There she was in all her glory at the Baftas, dressed in a lovely, floaty grey chiffon gown, a grey satin stole – and with PINK hair. But after I got over the initial...
A WAG* & proud of it
Yes, I’m a WAG and I’m proud to admit it. That’s not the footballers’ wives and girlfriends variety I’m glad to say, but the new acronym for Women Ageing Gracefully, or...
Was Tolkien A Spy?
Was Tolkien a spy? ‘JRR Tolkien trained as British spy’ screamed a headline in The Daily Telegraph, reporting on a 2009 exhibition at GCHQ, the British government’s...
The gnomes strike back
It is a thorny issue – and a move that will divide Britain’s gardeners right down the middle. After 100 years of an uncompromising ban, gnomes are about to be allowed...
A fairytale turned sour?
Like moves in a well-rehearsed, if precarious, game of Dancing On Ice, Prince Albert of Monaco and the director of a new film about his mother, Grace Kelly, are squaring up...
Money Made Easy
ISAs If you have any savings or have money to invest, you should have an ISA. ISAs (individual savings accounts) were introduced by the government in 1999, replacing...
The nurse honoured by...
It was one of the most extraordinary moments of the year so far: the news that Pope XVI had resigned from office, the first pontiff to do so in six centuries. But the story...
Courtly love
If your dream is to dress up in 16th-century costume and be ‘wooed’ on the dance floor by an Elizabethan gentleman, then, dear reader, I have lived that dream. The Nonsuch...
Is this the cutest pet...
Her nose is soft, cold and wet and constantly sniffing around. She has a massive tongue and likes licking things, both herself and whoever’s holding her. Her little white...
How to get 'with it'
What does social media mean to you? Fun, frivolity and a channel to the latest news? Or are you a sceptic, underwhelmed by the mediocrity of it all? Maybe you prefer to...
The new Florence...
It is thousands of miles from Britain, in the remote Helmand desert, but is widely considered to be one of our very finest trauma hospitals, providing vital, lifesaving...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"DEEPLY-ROOTED is the idea that men are indifferent to dress, while the ladies, God bless them, think of nothing else"
The Lady, With Prejudice, 8th January, 1942
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