The Errant Æsthete

Taken from the always reliable kottke, a treasure trove of media errors and corrections for the year appropriately titled ‘Regret the Error.’ Happily, this is an annual list so the archives are equally rich for mining, although the 2007 installment does not disappoint. A sample from a UK publication, always so deliciously wicked:

An article about Lord Lambton (”Lord Louche, sex king of Chiantishire”, News Review, January 7) falsely stated that his son Ned (now Lord Durham) and daughter Catherine held a party at Lord Lambton’s villa, Cetinale, in 1997, which degenerated into such an orgy that Lord Lambton banned them from Cetinale for years. In fact, Lord Durham does not have a sister called Catherine (that is the name of his former wife), there has not been any orgiastic party of any kind and Lord Lambton did not ban him (or Catherine) from Cetinale at all.