One fine bay
Sunday Telegraph
24 February 2002
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The trip to Lady Walton's garden, followed by lunch on her veranda, was part of Fine Art Travel - a recherche little company among purveyors of cultural tourism, which offers mini Grand Tours led by a fully-fledged aristocrat. To be taken round the streets of Naples by the boyish Lord Charles Fitzroy is pleasantly ironic given that on the original, Grand Tour, Naples was the place for an English "milord" to shake off his tutor and indulge in the 18th-century equivalent of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
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"To understand Naples fully," declares the Fine Art Travels' brochure, "you need to unlock the palaces which lie concealed behind closed doors." This is where our affable tour guide comes into his own. With a title stretching back to Charles II and over three centuries of continental networking behind him, Lord Fitzroy has the keys and contacts necessary to open the right doors.
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