So the deed is done. Prince Harry has married his beautiful, bi-racial, feminist American sweetheart and I’m here to say that I witnessed their tying the knot – even if it was on French TV with French being spoken over the English. So terribly weird! Of course, being a sentimental type, I, like Meghan’s mother …
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Welcome to the Franco-American museum in the Chateau de Blérancourt (that’s yours truly in the picture above, standing at the entrance). I’d been hearing about this museum which is a mere hour’s drive from Paris for quite some time. Truth be told, and I don’t know why, it wasn’t on my list of priorities. …
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At first glance, the Maison Legeron looks quirky, homey, topsy turvy. Hard to imagine that the charming, old-fashioned atelier houses the last independent family firm that makes and supplies the exquisite handmade artificial flowers worn by top models strutting down the runways at haute couture shows (and also sold for astronomical prices in high fashion boutiques). …
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