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ROYAL BLUE
COOL RUNNINGS
MAID IN CHELSEA
THE PONY CLUB
A KNATCHURAL FIT
BETTER OR VERSE
‘MIND IF I CRASH?’ MY 40 YEARS AS TATLER’S PARTY SNAPPER
Oxford Tımes • DECADES AFTER DAFYDD JONES SHOT HIS FIRST HUNT BALLS FOR TATLER, THE ANNUAL CHRIST CHURCH AND FARLEY HILL BEAGLES BASH STILL SPARKS SOME EPIC TAILS
Roots manoeuvre • Born into generations of farmers, Herbert Read rose to the top of society as the definitive 20th-century European bow-tied intellectual and a shaper of British art. From Yorkshire soil to poetry and anarchy: how could a mind move so far, asks his grandson Albert Read
THE ANTI SOCIALS
THE IT List • New treats for a new month? May as well!
Eat, Fay, love • Art, food and style-on-sea: there’s plenty on the menu to impress Fay Maschler at Margate’s Fort Road Hotel
COLOUR BY NUMBERS • Red and yellow and pink and green… this season’s haute horlogerie is a riot of rainbow-inspired hues
DEDICATED FOLLOWER • From peplums to Grecian gowns: the latest looks and how to wear them
Classic Margarita • Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones is the most prominent member of the Royal Family you’ve never met: daughter of the King’s first cousin, bridesmaid for the Waleses and a regular on the Buckingham Palace balcony. Now, she’s making her Tatler debut.
MEET THE FAMILY • Photographer, jewellery designer and 26th in line to the throne, Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones is a perfect blend of royalty and creativity. She is Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon’s only granddaughter, a cousin of King Charles III and directly descended from the first earls of Harrington on her mother’s side. Her creative gene is buttressed by her great-great-uncle, set designer Oliver Messel, and her great-great-great-grand-father, the cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne (to whom her brother’s title, Viscount Linley, owes its name). And her sense of style? Inherited from her great-grandmother Anne Messel, one of the last century’s most glamorous figures.
Close-up and personal • How ‘man of the people’ Lord Snowdon captured the hearts of high society. By Robin Muir
We are not a muse • Party dresses come straight out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting as a new Tate Britain exhibition puts the romance and radicalism of the Rossetti generation in the frame
Heavenly creatures • The Tate exhibition celebrates the radical side to the romantic Pre-Raphaelites.
WHAT’S IT ALL A PP-OUT? • A MEDIA SIEGE, SCUFFLESIN TV STUDIOS AND FURIOUS TEXTS FROM MATT HANCOCK: ISABEL OAKESHOTT BLEW THE DOORS OFF NO. 10 WHEN SHE LEAKED GOVERNMENT WHATSAPP MESSAGES FROM THE UK’S LOCKDOWN. HERE, SHE REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED THE WEEK SHE WAGED WAR ON WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER’S WHATSAPP styles • From dry George to flummoxed Boris and preening Hancock, how do the Tories text?
Lady Sophie’s choice • The sole heir of the Marquess of Abergavenny is back at Eridge Park with a radical vision to transform her family seat. And, as she tells Danielle Lawler, her visions always come true…
THE NEW FACELIFT • A trailblazing lifting technique promises the kind of results that once required a scalpel and six weeks of recovery. Francesca Ogiermann-White talks to the doctors who swear by it
HOW TO BE A (BEAUTY) SOCIAL CLIMBER… • …BECAUSE THERE’S NO POINT IN UNDERGOING A HI-TECH TREATMENT IF YOU’RE NOT ON THE RETINOID LADDER.
FRESH FACES • The couture lipstick case, the red-hot mascara, the sweet scent and more. Meet the new beauty...