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Comment Link ไวน์ December, 07 2024Up the great staircase trooped the 2,500 guests, resplendent in tiaras and jewels or white tie and tails, to be
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Pale rays illuminate the top-lit gallery of Londonderry house
Beside her stood her handsome husband Charles, the seventh
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That November night in 1919 was Edith Londonderry's
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20-odd years.
The Marchioness of Londonderry wears ‘the fender' to greet
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Londonderry House, like many of London's great houses,
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which they migrated for ‘the Season' - those summer months filled with balls and
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The ballroom, Devonshire House
These houses were as magnificent as their owners could manage.
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flung open for entertaining.
Georgiana Cavendish (1757-1806), a lover of gambling - and threesomes
Today most of these palatial mansions have been pulled down or turned into blocks of flats.
With their disappearance went their furnishings, objets and paintings.
But what their wonderful rooms looked like can be seen in London: Lost Interiors, a book compiled
from superb black-and-white photographs of these amazing houses, some
of which belonged to aristocratic landowners, others to plutocrats or society figures.
The drawing room, Grosvenor House
Most of the townhouses - those used for the Season rather than permanent residences - were clustered round Park Lane, Mayfair or on Piccadilly, like Devonshire House.
Here once lived the fifth Duke of Devonshire
and his wife Georgiana (pronounced jaw-janer), whom he had married in 1774
when she was just 17. She was a celebrated beauty who quickly became
a leader of fashion, famous for her towering hairstyles three feet high,
decorated with birds, fruit, even ships in sail. The couple spent 20 years in a ménage à
trois with Lady Elizabeth Foster, Georgiana's close friend, who was
also the Duke's mistress. Meanwhile, Georgiana's gambling led to mounting debts:
on her death in 1806 they were found to be the
equivalent of £4 million in today's money.
The rich, restless second Duke of Westminster, AKA Bendor, in his
20s
Another Park Lane mansion was Grosvenor House, belonging to the dukes
of Westminster and one of the largest in London, as befitted the family's status and wealth (their
huge fortune came from their ownership of Mayfair).
Bendor, the blond and handsome second duke (1879-1953) was known as one
of the richest men in England, lavishing jewels on his mistresses, chief among whom was Coco Chanel.
The picture gallery, Grosvenor House
A restless soul, Bendor would arrive without warning at any of his houses (or yachts).
All were kept ready: cars fuelled, silver polished, servants in livery.
But after the First World War, during which
Grosvenor House had been requisitioned as a hospital, land
prices had risen so high that even for Bendor it
had become uneconomic and he sold it. It was
demolished in 1927 and the Grosvenor House Hotel was built on the site.
Designer Oliver Messel, Devonshire House, 1934
At the other end of the scale was 8 Pelham Place, the
South Kensington home of Cecil Beaton from 1940 to 1975.
Superbly furnished by this brilliant photographer, it was described loftily by the diarist Chips Channon (for whom the
word ‘snob' could have been invented - in his
diaries he declares, ‘I am only really happy with royalty') as ‘a tiny but super-attractive snuffbox of a house'.
Beaton, himself no social slouch, ran him close: at his parties the
women often wore stiletto heels, which pitted the floor, and later he would point them out, saying, ‘That's Princess Marina, that's Julie Andrews, that's Vivien Leigh…'
French furnishings at 8 Pelham Place, the South Kensington home
of Cecil Beaton
Beaton's near neighbour in Pelham Place, until the mid-60s,
was the great stage designer Oliver Messel. When Messel's nephew Tony Armstrong-Jones (later Lord Snowdon) became engaged to Princess
Margaret, Messel laid on a lunch, asking the Princess if
there was anyone she would particularly like to meet.
She said she had always greatly admired the witty cabaret star Bea Lillie and so Messel invited her.
What none of them knew was that Bea Lillie had a drinking
habit. At the end of lunch she slid quietly under the table and was carried upstairs to sleep it off.
Tony and the Princess took their leave and Messel rushed
back to his studio, where he was busy with fittings for Elizabeth Taylor, only to be interrupted by a telephone call.
Cecil Beaton at home in Pelham Place, 1947
‘It's Kensington Police Station here, Mr Messel,' said the voice at the other end.
‘We thought you ought to know that there's a naked woman on your balcony, throwing
bottles at everyone who passes by.'
Among the last of these fascinating residences to survive was the aforementioned Londonderry House.
Throughout the 20s and 30s it had seen receptions and balls,
hosted by the Londonderrys for their four daughters and two granddaughters.
When eventually it had to go, in July 1962, a farewell party for 300 was
given by Alastair, the 9th Marquess. Live sounds were supplied by a blues band featuring a swaggering young Mick
Jagger, no less - presaging the rise of a whole new swinging London generation.
London: Lost Interiors by Steven Brindle is published by Atlantic,
£50. To order a copy for £42.50 with free UK delivery
until 22 December, go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.
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Jackie O Henderson has left her father Tony red-faced after a
shocking stunt in which he was tricked into reading about her threesome live on-air.
The awkward family exchange occurred on Tuesday's Kyle and Jackie O Show when the radio queen and co-host Kyle Sandilands
were discussing Jackie's new memoir The Whole Truth.
Before getting her father on the line, Jackie explained to listeners that she was about to get
an unsuspecting Tony to read an excerpt that detailed a
night of passion with then boyfriend 'Ugly' Phil O'Neil and a
19-year-old stripper.
'So this is going back to my Gold Coast days when I had met
Phil who [later became] my first husband,' the 49-year-old explained.
'I had only just met him at this point. I think [we were] two months into seeing each other.'
Jackie then prompted her unprepared father
to read the excerpt that detailed Phil's living situation with the stripper and another, rather unsavory 'stoner' flatmate.
'He lived in a place in Main Beach that felt like a motel with two weird flatmates.
One was a stoner guy who would sit there blazed out of his gourd,' Tony read from Jackie's book.
Jackie O Henderson has left her father Tony a little red faced after making him read about
her first threesome live on air
The book then turned to Jackie's first ménage à trois.
'Then there was the stripper they lived with [named]
Christie,' Tony read.
'We went out to a nightclub one night and we came home and we were
having sex and Christie decided she wanted to join us.
Before getting her father on the line Jackie explained
to listeners that she was about to get Tony to read an excerpt
that detailed a night of passion with then boyfriend 'Ugly' Phil O'Neil
and a 19-year-old stripper
'We went out to a nightclub one night and we came home and we were having sex and Christie decided she wanted to join us,' Tony awkwardly read
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'The idea of a threesome had obviously never occurred to me before I
had never even considered it because it didn't sound like me.'
Tony soldiered on with the revealing passage which revealed
that Jackie and Phil's third was only interested in one half of the equation.
'I had no idea what to do - she was this cute 19-year-old with a dark bob and an amazing body but she was only into women,' Tony continued.
'Phil was really excited but Christie kept slapping him away.
She did her thing and then left.'
When Kyle asked Jackie to clarify what she meant by 'did
her thing', a sheepish Jackie replied: 'Let's not talk about this in front of my dad,
shall we.'
'I had no idea what to do she was this cute 19 year old with a dark bob and an amazing body
but she was only into women,' Tony continued. 'Phil was really excited but Christie kept slapping him away .
She did her thing and then left.' Jackie id pictured with Phil (r) and Michael Jackson tribute act Jason Jackson
Despite the raciness of the content he had just read from his
daughter's book, Tony admitted he was not shocked by the revelations.
'Am I amazed? Probably not,' he said.
'I'm sort of trying to take all of this in. After all, its my daughter we're talking about.
If it was somebody else, it would be a different story altogether.
I'd be so excited.
'I've been round the block a few times. I understand how these things happen.'
Another passage in the book revealed a very awkward encounter between Phil's
male flatmate and Jackie's mother Julie.
'My mum came over once and when no one answered the door, she put her face to
the screen to see inside and that flatmate was right there in the living room,
pants down, w***ing,' a shocked Tony read.
The revelations come after Jackie spoke for the first
time about her years-long battle with drugs which saw her secretly go to
rehab at The Betty Ford Clinic in November in 2022.
During a tearful on-air admission, Jackie said at the height of her addiction,
she took around 10-12 Stilnox/Ambien sleeping pills and
24 Panadeine Forte painkillers a day.
Kyle Sandilands