A Prince Among Goons
In the winter of 1973, the future King came through our doors in pursuit of the three silliest men in England —…
History
Eccentricity in the Blood
In the 1960s, John Blythe recalled growing up in the Eccentric Club founded by his grandfather, Jack Harrison. Half a century later,…
The Del Boy of the Forties
He played every wide boy, tipster, black-marketeer and fast-talking chancer that the British cinema of the rationed years required — and it…
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The mermaid in a dog collar
From a vicar who dressed as a mermaid, preached with nine cats in church and created what became the modern Harvest Festival,…
The Eccentric Charigs
Wes Anderson had The Royal Tenenbaums. The Eccentric Club knew the Charigs — meet a court jeweller dozing under the club clock,…
The Great Point of the Tower
Pink pigeons on the lawn, a clavichord under the seat of the Rolls, a horse taking tea in the drawing room, and…
The Peer Who Turned Down a Kingdom
Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King - the fable of an Englishman who travels east, is taken for a god…
The Dancing Marquess
He had 30,000 acres, a perfumed motor car and a chapel he turned into a theatre. In six brief years, Henry Cyril…