The due diligence I have done on our hosts filled me in on Verity's rise from modest beginnings in the East End of London, her academic achievements as a scholarship student at a posh public school, the style and flair and brilliant editorial instincts she showed even at Cambridge, and then at her first job at Je Ne Sais Quais in Paris. I knew of Verity's vault to editor of Country Elegance in London, her discovery by magazine magnate Seymour Rubin, who brought her to New York to take the helm of the then-faltering Expectations. I read how she met Corbett Schroeder through Donald Trump and
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