I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed -- china, crystal, linen, silver -- that other relatives ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

Royal etiquette has its roots in the medieval court, when every movement around the monarch signified loyalty and rank,” Julie Montagu, the Countess of Sandwich, explained in a video on TikTok. “How ...