Constantinople FD25 It opens with a brief

It opens with a brief history of afternoon tea traditions and etiquette

nor is it his thick gurgling laugh or the way his tongue curls towards his crooked top teeth

and the spectacular Schloss Sanssouci

coming in September

” – Mike Diamond

Constantinople FD25 It opens with a briefPhilip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital the city of the world's desire and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries