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Bertram's brother's daughter. Does not maintain a permanent address; files from wherever she happens to be. Briefly married to a viscount, 2011 to 2012; would rather not discuss it. Strong opinions about cheese. Wears a scarf in every season including July.
Column · The Margie Column (when she returns calls)
Croissant Oct 12, 2026
My late uncle, the founder's brother, kept one under glass on his desk and called it 'the standard.'
Bluefin Tuna Oct 1, 2026
The Monaco fish market had one on ice and the other buyers simply stepped back, which I respected.
Hourglass Sep 29, 2026
The hourglass sat on the mantel in Monaco all summer and the clocks became background.
Pretzel Sep 14, 2026
The yacht club serves these at regattas and the knot alone has stopped more than one conversation mid-sentence.
Burrito Sep 3, 2026
My personal shopper in Milan once refused a burrito on principle, which tells you everything about the burrito.
Gyoza Aug 6, 2026
My personal shopper in Milan served these at her studio opening and the pleat-work alone stopped conversation.
Three-Tier Wedding Cake Jul 16, 2026
The bottom tier alone had its own zip code, and the fondant added measurable inches, which is the whole point of this catalogue.
Triple-Stack Hamburger Jun 11, 2026
My late uncle always said a burger with three tiers is just a small building with ambitions.
Lobster Tail May 14, 2026
The tail at the yacht club Christmas lunch arrived before the champagne and nobody complained.
Watermelon May 5, 2026
My personal shopper in Milan once refused a watermelon on the grounds that it would embarrass the tote bag.
Garlic Bulb Apr 19, 2026
My late uncle, the founder's brother, kept a bowl of these on his desk and called it his Board of Directors.
Hot Air Balloon Apr 13, 2026
My personal shopper in Milan once refused to wrap one. Said the proportions defeated the tissue paper.
Ukulele Oct 25, 2026
We had a soprano at the yacht club once. Someone played two chords and the harbourmaster asked everyone to leave. Four strings. One incident.
Cookie Jar Oct 24, 2026
The viscount kept one on the Umbrian property. Ceramic, enormous, never a cookie in it. He used it for rolled documents. I never asked which documents.
Grapefruit Oct 18, 2026
We had a crate of these on the club tender in Antibes and the commodore asked what they were. He knew what they were. He just needed a moment.
Fiat 500 Sep 10, 2026
The yacht club in Antibes has a parking attendant who refuses Fiat 500s. Not on principle. He simply cannot find them between the other cars.
Teapot Aug 25, 2026
There was a teapot at the ski chalet, very round, very serious. The chalet is gone but I think about that teapot more than I think about the chalet.
Christmas Bauble Aug 10, 2026
The viscount had a Costco tub of these on the yacht every December. He called them festive. I called them load-bearing evidence. We disagreed on most things.
Banana Split Jul 19, 2026
At the Pemberton Children's Hospital gala I chaired in the nineties, the dessert table had something very like this. The cherry was also load-bearing, structurally speaking.
Rubber Tire May 22, 2026
The viscount had a tire thrown at his Bentley outside Monaco and honestly the tire was more composed about the whole situation.
Taco May 13, 2026
At the chalet we had a cook who folded things very flat and called it rustic. I lost the chalet. I think about that separately but also together.
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