Jeeves is alive and well and living in Hungerford. George Cazenove, who blamed the congestion charge when his second- hand clothes shop in Fulham, Bertie Wooster, went out of business a few years ago, is now thriving in Berkshire and says his new shop, An Officer and a Gentleman, is a catalyst for change between old money and new money in the Home Counties.
“Pippa Middleton, Yasmin le Bon and Madonna have all been in my shop,” he boasts, endearingly.
“The other day we had Ricky Groves — Garry from EastEnders — in the shop bringing in loads of clothes he had worn on telly. He bought huge flat caps and knickerbockers and left looking incredibly smart like the Duke of Beaufort, a well-known dandy. Then the Marquess of Headfort bought all of Ricky’s East End clothes. How the role-playing has changed.”
