There was a dawn chorus at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodphur, but the birds were only bit players. The main performance was from sitar and drums, played by musicians who sat on steps beneath the wide terrace...
There must be something in the waffles – or the beer/fries/tax laws – but it seems that Belgium has more than its fair share of creative brilliance. I mean damn, the entire design team at Dior is now...
The British media must secretly hate Kate Middleton. Why else would they poisonously misquote the brilliant Hilary Mantel? Ok, some context. Mantel is an extraordinary woman, who has won the Man Booker prize...
I had a strange sense of déjà vu when I toured the compelling Van Cleef & Arpels Palais de la chance collection at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts last week. As I strolled with Sybille Jammes,...
Sport can claim few better partners than Polo and Royal Salute, a game of monarchs matched with a whisky that honours a Queen. The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Golden Jubilee Cup is the most prestigious...
Andrew Lloyd Webber made a fortune with tunes based on T.S.Eliot’s Cats but it was four legged creatures of a more muscular type that frolicked across his lawn this summer, as a famous Hong Kong brand took...
PENINSULA SHANGHAI As a child in England in the 1960s I had a dream of visiting Shanghai. The auteur in my head imagined a place of intense struggle, suppressed...
With a thunderous roar cannons from the Honourable Company of Fusiliers gave a regal salute to Queen Elizabeth II as she passed by the Tower of London on her diamond jubilee...
There are a host of skincare products on the market but few are backed by the level of technical expertise and devotion to detail that is found at Biologique Recherche. As Daniel...
Chairman Mao believed that women had an equal role to play in building a great country, and now a thriving group of wealthy female entrepreneurs is emerging, driven on by the sacrifices...
