SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Bicycle bandit mugs V&A boss Nicholas Coleridge for his mobile phone 

Nicholas Coleridge, ebullient chairman of the V&A Museum, has become the latest victim of London‘s crime wave. He was mugged last week opposite the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the assailant cheekily bicycled off with his mobile phone. ‘I was talking on the phone and standing by the kerb to try and get a better line … Read more

Nicholas Coleridge says Princess Diana would try on clothes at Vogue instead of going into stores

As the long-standing managing director of British media company Condé Nast – among many other titles – Nicholas Coleridge has a wealth of celebrity stories up his sleeves. The former President of Conde Nast International spent 30 years at the top of the business, assembling more than 100 titles, as well as countless A-lister encounters which he shared … Read more

Somerset’s Quantock Hills and Exmoor: Follow in the footsteps of Coleridge and Wordsworth

Pottering poetically: Following in the footsteps of our hike-loving literary giants in Somerset’s beautiful Quantock Hills and across Exmoor (via a few good pubs, of course) Coleridge and Wordsworth spent time galumphing around the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the 18th century The Daily Mail’s Ed Cumming traced the Romantic poets’ steps on a four-day, … Read more

V&A Museum director Nicholas Coleridge reveals he saw visions of snakes

‘I saw snakes as I went loonier and loonier during coronavirus hallucinations’ says V&A Museum director Nicholas Coleridge as he reveals his family were told to prepare for the worst as he fought for his life in intensive care Nicholas Coleridge said he was met with snake visions during Covid-19 battle Also said he saw images … Read more

When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more