21, as it is shorthanded in engagement diaries of the rich and famous, is not a place for the publicity-shy.
I ask if it says 'Duke' on his passport, and he opens the top drawer of his desk and starts hurling its contents on the floor: letters, engagement diaries, chequebooks, cascade over the carpet.
Even Muriel, who granted a rare interview, is corrected when she claims that Margaret was too busy to go to their father's funeral, with reference to Margaret's "two engagement diaries of the period" and a report in the Grantham Journal.
"As with the engagement diaries, our collections relate to Woolf as an individual rather than her public persona of novelist, reviewer and essayist".
Small pocket engagement diaries used by Virginia Woolf to detail her personal life in her final years have been purchased by the University of Sussex.
"Our [current] collection very much represents Woolf's everyday life in the same way that the pocket engagement diaries do," she said.
my late father's original papers, personal manuscripts, diaries, engagement books, and writings".
He will continue to honour engagements in his diary until his successor is installed, however once freed from the constraints of office, he might spend more time on musical pursuits.
I admit my heart plummeted at tonight's opening scenes: not only was Birgitte abroad, shunning Danish for English – not normally a recipe for success – but those first shots of a super-glamorous Nyborg in a helicopter over Hong Kong, the diary engagements of a successful private sector boss being spelled out, landed with a massive thunk.
Significantly, when Bartoli tells me of her forthcoming plans, she speaks not of a recital tour or an operatic engagement, even though her diary teems with them, but that she is going to curate the Salzburg Whitsun festival in 2012 – as if to say there is more to life and she would be kinder to herself and career to step off the endless globetrotting drudgery of recitals.
