GREETINGS FROM THE EAST WING

I thought we would take an Edwardian interlude this evening before we hurtle towards the Georgian era and the calamity of 1914.  For tonight however, let us partake in a leisurely promenade and afterwards straighten the antimacassars on our ox-blood leather high chairs and listen to a little Balfe, then some Lauder, Lloyd and Sullivan whilst indulging in a sun-downer or two.  Let us ruminate on a world that still had faith in progress, evolutionary change - a world of liberal optimism as Britain became party to the Entente Cordiale of 1904.

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