Can housework help you live longer? A New York Times blog post by Gretchen Reynolds last month cited research linking vigorous activity,...

Like many busy professional women, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, founder of the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan, owns a place in the city...

Telegraph Expat talks to a former Royal footman, now running a ‘school for butlers’ in New York, to get his opinion on the royal wedding....

Christopher Ely is prone to philosophizing about his life's work. "You should be invisible, to a certain point," he explains carefully,...

Classes focus on culinary, laundry and household cleaning essentials. Butler Christopher Ely has done it all: served dinner to the queen...

A butler who once served the Royal family has started up a course on how to run a household fit for a queen. Christopher Ely will teach...

but rather, left alone, preferably near an open window, to allow the sleeper’s perspiration to evaporate. In Mr. Ely’s Laundry Essentials...

I’m not talking about estates of the net-worth variety that you’d prefer to keep out of the hands of the I.R.S. and leave to your kids,...