My mother used to enjoy saying: "My husband's mother's cousin's daughter's husband's father is the president of the United States."

Babe married Bill Paley, the late head of CBS. Besides inventing the saying 'one can never be too rich or too thin,' she had daily-changed, starched, white linen slip covers... in her Manhattan car! I may have picked up some of the same style-genes.

The third sister married Jock Whitney, who, as you know, among other things was the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James. That's fun, but it gets better...

My father's Aunt Lizzie had a wonderful house in Dorset. Mom and Dad used to visit. Here's a photo of my Mom and Dad on a regular visit (quite a few years ago). Seems everyone in my family has always enjoyed traveling.

The house is called Stepleton and had a small-scale, steam railroad on which one could ride around the garden. (I dropped in the other day; new owners, new money, little style and no railroad.)