Modern Notoriety · West Wittering, West Sussex
Redlands (the Rolling Stones bust)
Keith Richards's moated cottage, raided by eighteen officers on a February evening in 1967 with Marianne Faithfull famously wrapped in a fur rug. The trial threatened prison and produced the era-defining Times editorial 'Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?'. The notorious Mars bar detail is an unevidenced press invention — labelled so here, per Snopes.
Sources
Nearby on the map
The cottage where Austen revised and wrote the six novels that taught the English how to fall in love — every drawing-room glance, every letter pressed into a gloved hand, composed at a twelve-sided walnut table small enough to hide when visitors called.
Fact & fictionRoyal LiaisonOsborne House (Victoria & Albert's private idyll)East Cowes, Isle of Wight · EnglandThe seaside palace Albert built so the royal couple could be, in Victoria's word, 'snug' — a marriage of genuine passion the Queen recorded with un-Victorian candour. Her bathing machine survives; so do the nine children as evidence of the idyll.
Documented historyRoyal LiaisonFort Belvedere (Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson)Sunningdale, Surrey · EnglandThe country retreat where the King's affair with the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson deepened, and where he signed the Instrument of Abdication in December 1936 — love versus the crown.
Documented historySpotted an error, or hold a better source? Write to marquis@marquisdemayfair.com — corrections are made, never defended. Our methodology.