The book is dedicated to "Victoria - without whom, nothing", and the tender but unsentimental way Gray records his dependence on her support is one of the elements that make Coda a not unrelievedly harrowing book.
She made regular buying trips to Europe, and never passed through London without visiting the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum's jewellery gallery where, she recalled, she would "wander for an hour or two in blissful serenity".
Though Helena was the next eldest, she was considered unreliable by Victoria because of her inability to go long without bursting into tears.
In Victoria they are banned from being put up within 2km of a dwelling without written consent.
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By Victoria Abbot Riccardi.
As Victoria Coren pointed out in the Observer on Sunday: "The problem is that nobody can do anything anymore without putting pictures of it on the internet.
