If you grew up reading Smash Hits, quoting Blackadder at length in the playground and calling people "milady" for no clear reason, it may well be a cornerstone of your own sense of humour; even if you didn't, you'll recognise it, and know it to be at once charming and a bit exhausting.
She seemed to be turning into Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak – the farm-owning milady and her sturdy farmer ally – at the same time... She's become a keen environmentalist, although she sounds a mite knackered by "the whole organic thing".
Hollander doesn't make too much of the moment in 1858, when a man--Charles Frederick Worth, an English drygoods merchant transplanted to Paris--became the first professional male designer of female clothes, hitherto the domain of female dressmakers and milliners and milady herself.
Once marketed "for milady" and available only for passengers, vanity mirrors now come on both the left and right sunvisors of most vehicles sold in the United States.
In Magna Carta handwriting, my boyfriend wrote something like, "Willst thou go to third with me... milady?" He was unrelenting in his quest, and finally a plan was made.
The upper-class milady role went to teen pin-up Liv Tyler.
That beautiful lady defeated me.' 'And was she really that beautiful, Sir Henry Incrediblybeautifuliful, milady.
Instead, my injury came from a domestic the cardinal was having with milady, Maimie McCoy.
"Good evening, milady," he says when I open the door.
If this all sounds faintly familiar, it's perhaps because it was only a couple of months ago that milady announced that she'd been propositioned by three separate stars, explaining: "One would bring down Hollywood if it ever got out".
