August 2013

A right Royal summer!

At the end of July I was told that I was this year’s first public visitor to the garden café overlooking the parched yellow lawns of Buckingham Palace. I had been at the press view of the exhibition 'Coronation ', commemorating the ceremony 60 years ago when our Queen was crowned and what took place in the various staterooms of the palace on that day. On a sweltering day, as I sat eating one of the new (delicious) ‘Royal’ ice creams, I considered what I had written in our editorial at the beginning of that month, when I advised British readers of Cassone to cheer themselves up by considering wonderful exhibitions abroad, to get away from our disastrous summer. What a difference a few weeks make, and as the UK experiences a long period of unaccustomed summer heat I am going to say to you to look no further than our shores for wonderful exhibitions and books to read in the...

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