RECENTLY, I fell in love with and bought a little oil painting online—a Swedish seascape in a black frame—to fit into the decor in my bedroom. It was somehow luminous but melancholy. And that set off ...
It was a sweet and melancholy lament, chosen by Lady Sarah, but has a bitter-sweet title, The Desperate Struggle of the Bird - perhaps, in some way, representing the Princess's spirit and verve.
"Melancholy is an essential part of being a human being, and you shouldn't fight it," says founder Alexander Stutterheim. "And that is the analogy with the raincoat, you should go out and embrace ...