TALK OF THE TOWN: Swipe right if you want to date Lady Eliza Manners on Hinge

TALK OF THE TOWN: Swipe right if you want to date Lady Eliza Manners on Hinge By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:04 BST, 9 August 2020 | Updated: 01:16 BST, 9 August 2020 Who is going to believe an online dating profile that claims to be … Read more

Acts which instantly indicate a person has no manners

People reveal the acts that instantly identify someone with ‘no manners’ from throwing garbage to PDAs and loud phone conversations (but are YOU guilty of any of them?) Redditor from the US asked what makes people think someone has no manners Their question prompted more than 10,000 responses from around the world The most popular … Read more

Don’t breach cov-etiquette! Debrett’s warn coronavirus is no excuse for bad manners

Don’t breach cov-etiquette! Debrett’s warn coronavirus is no excuse for bad manners and to welcome guests with a cheery ‘I wish I could give you a hug’ so they keep their social distance Etiquette experts Debrett’s have new guidelines in-keeping with social distancing Party hosts told to say ‘I wish I could give you a … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Society magician Archie Manners conjures up Boy George by mistake 

Lockdown, what lockdown? London’s social scene might have been put on the backburner, but its movers and shakers are refusing to let the fun come to an end. Everyone from the Duchess of Cornwall to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and, reportedly, David Cameron is now socialising via Houseparty, the social network which allows group video … Read more

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week’s top podcasts

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout, Castaway and The Coronavirus Podcast, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 Table Manners  Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest … Read more

Last of Royal Navy WWII destroyer captains, Lieutenant Commander John Manners, dies aged 105

Last of the Royal Navy WWII destroyer captains dies aged 105: Lieutenant Commander John Manners was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy sinking U-1274 three weeks before end of the war Lieutenant Commander John Manners, was commanding officer of HMS Viceroy Manners oversaw the sinking of German submarine U-1274 in April 1945 Viceroy’s crew found 72 … Read more

Marie-Chantal of Greece insists ‘beautiful manners’ is key to raising successful children

She is a successful society businesswoman and mother-of-five whose children are already forging their own successful paths in life, so Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece is certainly well placed to be offering parenting advice.  The fashion designer, 51, shares five children with her royal husband, Prince Pavlos of Greece: daughter Olympia, 23, and four sons: Constantine, … Read more

A Medieval book on etiquette and manners is digitised by the British Library for the first time

A medieval book that warns children against picking their noses, burping in public or eating all the cheese has been digitised by the British Library. The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke (The Little Children’s Little Book) was written more than 500 years ago by an unknown author and teaches etiquette and table manners. It has been … Read more

Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners: A real family feast

Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners: A real family feast By Jessie And Lennie Ware Published: 00:03 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 1 March 2020 Fancy joining Jessie and Lennie at the dinner table? You can with this exclusive extract from their new book, which is full of funny stories and nostalgic … Read more