Marrying a Mitford
” Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, was once asked by his estate workers when he planned to retire. He answered: ‘I’ve never worked a day in my life, so how can I retire?’ He is now 82 and still not working and still not retiring. Indolence, he explains, is the curse of the Cavendishes – they do very little but they do it well. He once wrote a Spectator diary which started: ‘January is the month when I re-arrange the books in the guest bedrooms here at Chatsworth.’ One waited agog to discover what else he did in January but, apart from musing on crocuses, that was it. “
Lynn Barber, The Original Thin White Duke.
[x]#254 fan zondag 20 oktober 2002 @ 17:19:51
lieuwe op 26 oktober 2002 @ 10:35:31
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