No gossip has so rankled ruling British Conservatives as that told about the Cliveden Set (pronounced kliv-den). First to “discover” the Set was The Week, mimeographed newssheet edited by tall, lean ...

Lloyd George once spoke of a very powerful combination - in its way the most powerful in the country. Its proceedings were invariably conducted at Cliveden, the country estate of the fabulously ...

Wars have many tragic casualties, among them friendships. Since the start of the Gaza conflict last year, a schism has been opening up at the top of the British literary world between those who ...

At Cliveden, the family seat of the British descendants of John Jacob Astor, once America`s richest man, the very hallways echo with the footsteps of the titled, the rich and sometimes infamous who ...