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...TOURISTY SITE: For serenity and beauty away from the crowds, take a packet of London's many newspapers to Mount Street Gardens and enjoy a respite on one of the wooden benches. The gardens are off the tourist trail in the tony Mayfair section, nestled behind Mount Street, South Audley and Farm Street...
Dodi's adolescence was spent shuttling among homes in Alexandria, Dubai and France. At 15 he was reportedly given his own Mayfair apartment, Rolls-Royce and chauffeur. He is said to have abandoned a fledgling career in the United Arab Emirates air force in favor of one in show business, establishing a London film-production company in the late 1970s. "He was financed by his father," Khashoggi says. With the elder Fayed's help, Dodi supplied $3 million of the $6.5 million total budget for the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. In subsequent years he announced dozens of projects that...
...hated the name Di," says BONNIE ANGELO, TIME's London bureau chief in the early '80s. "She was never called that by family or friends. I remember being present on a day, shortly after the engagement, when a group crowded around her on a pedestrian shopping street in Mayfair. Someone called out, 'Di!' She replied with obvious annoyance, 'Please don't call me that--I've never been called Di. I really don't like...
...profit--through a private sale or a public stock offering. Investcorp certainly spends money like a billionaires' bank. An eight-story headquarters in Bahrain (Investcorp House) is complemented not only by the premises on New York's Park Avenue but also by posh offices in London's Mayfair district. White-uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert...
...addition, the eroticism and sexuality which seem to come so easily in other Rice novels appears forced in Lasher. Thirteen-year-old Mona Mayfair, the heir to the Mayfair line should Rowan Mayfair die, displays a precocity beyond her years evident in her sexual encounters with Rowan's husband Michael. In a narrative account of a family based on incestuous relations, Mona's sexuality does not seem out of place. After all, the Mayfair line is founded on a series of bizarre couplings between relatives and between humans and spirits all in the name of the Mayfair family...