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

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

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. Had it been any oth...

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

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

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 the tricks of the tra...

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

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, but of the various de...