I kinda want to sneak in one night and reupholster all her furniture with material from her velour warehouse. I'd love to see her expression when she sees her fancy estate emblazoned with big, obnoxious "Juicy" logos. Everywhere.
Oh yes, Country Life magazine is my guilty pleasure and I would totally subscribe to it if it cost less than $270 a year. Any "fashion" spread wherein all models are introduced as "Lady Elizabeth, second daughter of Marchioness Suchandsuch and an avid yachter, wears..." makes me so old-worldly happy. Just bought an issue from the airport with my last £3.60 to drool over the manor houses for sale / the incredibly hot grouse hunting specialists. I will donate said issue to Jezebel if it promises to honor, cherish and obey an Edwardian out-of-touch aristocracy in sickness and in health...
@ficticious: Good news, anyone! Horse and Hound, also The Field, are cheaper, and the neo Edwardian, nearly invisible Norfolk type aristocrats read those ones first! Harry and Wills granny Lillibet too quite likely.
still pissed at john for marrying her. i mean, he's john frickity frackity TAYLOR, man. and look at him! he has a picture of dorian gray in his attic or something. why her? he could have done much better than a woman who's idea of stress reduction is organizing gloves, for pete's sake.
I like nice things and I would love a vacation home too (hmm... I probably have that in common with... almost everyone). But I could never hold my head up in public or feel good about myself if I spent that kind of money and acted as though finding time to dress was so stressful. I'd just feel like a horrible, miserable, selfish glutton of a person.
@bluesbelle: right? i mean, i love horses and i love the idea of a country home, but this much luxe is just so over-the-top. my husband and i were talking a couple of nights ago about this kind of income bracket. some people today live a much wealthier lifestyle than the royalty of years past did. just such a weird extreme between the haves and have-nots of our world.
In the interest of full disclosure, though, one of the best parts of my tour-guiding job is sitting on the front porch of the older house on a beautiful summer day, reading my book while waiting for people to want tours, pretending it's mine. It's a grange, surrounded by farmland, but with flower gardens in the front, and inside? Authentically dirty wallpaper, among other things. It makes the crap salary almost worth it. So I can't say that given the means and opportunity to own a similar place, I wouldn't already be signing the papers as we speak.
You know what grinds my gears? How nearly all of the most beautiful properties in the world sit empty for at least half the year. And the richer someone is and the more properties they have, the more of the time they each sit, unused. Makes me vom.
I am going to look into whether there are any public rights of way through her estate and stomp right through her stupid pretend croquet game. Aaaah, don't you love England and its quaint little traditions.
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@TheFormerJuneBronson: I have to watch it every couple of months. Sometimes I watch it for the Monte Carlo scenes, but it always comes back to that house.
@TexasCrude: I'd probably host a dinner party made of guests I've blackmailed then give said guests gifts random weapons they could use to possibly kill me.
I feel like I should hate this woman, but I'm currently so deeply entrenched into Jane Austen, The Age of Innocence, and other Regency-era houseporn that all I can do is go through this slideshow again. And again. And again. And wish that I had John Taylor as my personal Col. Brandon or Newland Archer.
@MissFiFi: But she looks fabulous in this photoshoot! The menswear horse riding costume is insane. Somehow I think she wouldn't be caught dead with "JUICY" emblazoned across her butt in pink velour.
@Yahtzii: Age of Innocence is one of my all time favorites and I have a big crush on Newland Archer! I still don't mind these kinds of articles...because it's fantasy and escapism for me. Living like that WOULD be awesome.
@scarletbegonia: I remember when I was about 12 there was an article in my mom's Vanity Fair about a woman who saw a manor house on TV and was determined to live there. She eventually married the owner. She was vain, shallow, and mostly reprehensible, but oh god did I love that article. I saved it for YEARS. In fact, I wish I still had it.
I always comfort myself with the fact that a house like that is probably haunted and, you know what? I don't want to live in a haunted house anyway. So, there.
When she said she organizes her gloves to calm down, I immediately flashed to a batshit-crazy Jan Levinson nattering about how whenever she's stressed or depressed, she just goes into her workspace and smells all her candles. Mmm, bonfire!
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