With a dedicated mobile phone to contact your butlers, every need is effortlessly addressed.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Oct. 2026
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
1 Oct. 2026
Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment.
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Saar Shahar,
The Conversation,
12 Oct. 2026
The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.
Butlers, once portrayed as buttoned-up, silver tray-carrying domestics, now manage complex staff, technology, security and logistics across multiple properties.
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Robert Frank,
CNBC,
10 July 2026
But to be fair, this phenomenon isn’t universal among domestics.
The race stewards had been extremely clear that leaving the track and gaining a permanent advantage at turns 1 or 4 on the first lap would result in a penalty unless the driver gave the place back.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
2 Nov. 2026
Earlier Tuesday, trainer Chris Waller was fined 50,000 Australian dollars ($35,000) and Astrix, an eight-year-old New Zealand gelding, was scratched by stewards because medication was administered to the horse's forelegs on the morning of the race.
This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
1 Oct. 2026
Jackson was particularly vocal in her criticism of the show’s shallow scripts, which featured plotlines about them going undercover as French maids, showgirls, lifeguards and, perhaps most infamously, prison inmates.
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Michael Callahan,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Sep. 2026
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