Tasteful friends...here's a rare look at the inside of the Queen’s private sitting room at Windsor Castle

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That family desperately needs a gay member who would be entrusted with the task of refurbishing that tacky grandmotherly atrocity.

That room looks like something out of that River Oaks home in Houston we hated!

[quote]That family desperately needs a gay member who would be entrusted with the task of refurbishing that tacky grandmotherly atrocity.

Thanks for your concern, darling...but there's not much point at this juncture...she's eighty fucking nine and we're keeping an eye on the coffers.

Is she riding astride on that horse? What if she busts her maidenhead?

[quote]That room looks like something out of that River Oaks home in Houston we hated!

The difference being this is the original and the one in Houston is a tacky copy. Love this. This is stuff she bought 40 years ago and it's "Still good" so why bother changing it?

[quote]That family desperately needs a gay member who would be entrusted with the task of refurbishing that tacky grandmotherly atrocity.

You're thinking [bold]GREIGE[/bold], aren't you?

Have the Tasteful friends ever discussed this?

[quote] You're thinking GREIGE, aren't you?

Actually, I'm thinking something with the presence of an Eames and the playful insouciance of an early Le Corbusier.

Might be lacking in style, but everything appears to be of a high quality - well-made, durable, sturdy.

The woman shits millions for breakfast. She could kill every tasteful friend, purchase an acquittal for each, and still have time to float an air biscuit past Camilla.

This transcends taste.

There's reportedly a "brass dish" on the desk. A photo of me?

One Queen in the house is quite sufficient. We don't need any decorator flitting around trying to change the interior.

The Blenheim Palace Eyes r8? Nothing to do with Lizzie.

"The Eyes of Blenheim Palace

Visitors to Blenheim Palace are often surprised to notice that the ceiling roof of the entrance portico is decorated with six remarkable eyes. Three of these are blue and three are brown and all of them look vaguely masonic in their design. They were painted in 1928 by artist Colin Gill based on strict instructions from Gladys, the remarkably beautiful and eccentric 2nd wife of the Ninth Duke of Marlborough. Gladys was renowned for her outstanding good looks and everyone who met het admitted that they were easily captivated by her exceptional eyes. The blue eyes of the portico are believed to be hers and there is even a record that she climbed to the top of the scaffolding with a blue scarf that matched their colour so that the painter would get them exactly right. The brown eyes are said to be those of the Duke but could equally have been those of the Duke’s first wife Consuela who was, for a time, close friends with Gladys.

Gladys was a remarkable woman who had known some of the greatest artists and writers of the time including Monet, Rodin and Proust. Men fell in love with her with regularity and she was pursued by Bernard Berenson, Hermann von Keyserling, the Duke of Connaught and d’Annunzio as well as Crown Prince of Prussia. She eventually married the Ninth Duke of Marlborough but was eventually evicted from the palace when the couple’s marriage broke down and her eccentric behaviour became too dangerous to ignore. It is said that she would carry a loaded pistol and when asked why she would answer that perhaps she would shoot the Duke. Gladys spent the last years of her life in a psychiatric hospital. To this day nobody is truly sure why she had the eyes painted or what they were meant to represent – or for that matter why there are three of each colour. Masonic connections, clairvoyance and spiritualism have all been suggested but there is no proof for any of these theories. Perhaps Gladys had them painted just because she could."

Does she play with her military figurines on her desk?

I wonder if they try to ration smokes, booze, or sweets....

I noticed the box of depends peeking out from under the davenport

Dowager Frumpess

She's 89. She deserves her comforts and little treats. She has behaved herself all her life and put up with a fishbowl existence. And she's still taking Princess Anne out for a ride from time to time as the picture clearly shows. She's OK in my book.

Lol, r4.