After World War II English Interior Designer John Fowler extracted the very essence of elegance out of eighteenth century interior style, added nineteenth century concepts of comfort, convenience and associations with home, hearth and family, to create an all new ‘eclectic’ English Country Style. It found favour the world over because of its comfortable connotations and understated Georgian grace.

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England’s Prince Regent George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762 – 1830) scandalized the nation with his reckless and lavish living habits. He gave an impressive love gift a diamond riviére (a necklace of precious stones, generally set in one strand) to his mistress Elizabeth, Lady Conyngham, who reputedly received gifts of jewels valued at the time in the region of 80,000 pounds.

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While her only known image may seem to reveal otherwise, there was nothing really plain about Jane.

Her novels, which have become classics in their own right, allow us today to share the memory of the robust society in which she lived and its privileges of rank. It was a colourful, turbulent and seemingly romantic world in the process of rapid evolution and Jane liked writing about young women fighting the battles of the heart to win the prize of marriage upon the field of courtship. They belong as much to her times as do the list of battle honours won by those involved in the era’s significant war campaigns.

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