"Taste," the Queen is supposed to have said, "doesn't always help." It's a brilliant thought. Taste – she obviously meant advanced visual discrimination, not finer feelings – doesn't always help. I've known people with perfect pitch in clothes, houses and food whose manic quests were so obsessional they brutalised everyone around them in the search for the perfect bleu marin or knocked-back green Connemara marble.
(Read the rest of this article from "The Independent" here:http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/buckingham-palace-a-right-royal-makeover-926740.html)
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