Duke of wellington

What do a Pavlova, a bowl of cherry Garcia and a Margarita have in common? You got that one right! They are all foods named after a famous person. (The Pavlova meringue confection is named after th…

Babe wake up, a new Lawrence portrait of Wellington just dropped 🥴🥴

Duke of Wellington by Rembrandt Peale

Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer)

Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Alfred d'Orsay

I have recently discovered the TV show Whitechapel, a blend of historical and modern crime. How I’ve missed this show for the past couple of years I don’t know, because I love it! Yes, I majored in…

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington 1769-1852

Thomas Lawrence was a child prodigy; from the age of 11 he supported his family by making pastel drawings of the fashionable elite who spent the season in Bath. The next step for an aspiring young artist was to learn how to paint in oils and Lawrence taught himself by doing self-portraits. He learned fast. The first painting in this exhibition of sumptuous portraits shows a diffident 19-year-old sitting sideways and glancing nervously towards us (pictured below right), as though fearful that…

I will fully admit that my love of Christopher Plummer stems 100% from his Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. The guy is dapper as all get out, and I love the cranky hardline character who is…

As a new BBC programme showed this week, The Duke of Wellington accepted female attention with pleasure, indulging his vigorous sexual appetite with a veritable harem of admirers.