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Leaping Through Time and Taste: Sagtikos Manor, Issue 18

Excerpt:

When a man lives with his mother until he’s in his forties it’s safe to assume one thing: they’ve a fabulous house.

For Robert David Lion Gardiner (1911-2004), the house was Sagtikos, the first of several properties he would inherit throughout his life. Gardiner, the 16th Lord of the Manor of Gardiner’s Island–another Eden in which he inherited an interest–was also the last, having produced no offspring. This wasn’t for a lack of trying. When his mother found him mid tryst with a Portuguese infanta in George Washington’s bedroom at Sagtikos, she declared what they were doing a sin. “Mother, don’t forget she [is] a royal highness,” he replied…

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