In case any of you care (and I hope you don’t), the Honorary International Committee for Longue Vue House and Gardens’ sesquiannual Sentimental Journeys gala includes the Maharana and Maharani Arvind Singh Mewar, the Contessa Simonetta Brandolini d’Adda, and Mr. and Mrs. Joaquin Fernandez de Cordova Hohenlohe, Marquess and Marchioness of Povar.
Which led me to ask: where the hell is Povar? It’s not in my olde-skoole 50-pound office dictionary, and all I could find via Google were a lot of gamer websites for some kinda MUD or MOO (remember those?). Wouldn’t it be funny if Mr. and Mrs. Hohenlohe were just a couple of bourgeois computer geeks who’d tantalized the gala committee with a really long name….
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