In the special on Gold, Edmund falls in love with his
manservant 'Bob', who is really a woman, Kate - and plans to marry her.
Its plot hinges on a double case of mistaken identity, on young masters and their
manservants getting separated in a shipwreck and growing up apart, and this works as well today as it did in the 16th Century.
His surname was immortalised by writer PG Wodehouse, who saw Jeeves play in 1913 and was so impressed by the cricketer's conduct and style that he stored the name and used it two years later when he devised his famous
manservant character.
Saudi prince who killed
manservant 'to be allowed home' Mr Al Saud, 36, was found guilty at the Old Bailey two years ago of murdering his
manservant Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, in a "sadistic" assault in their five-star London hotel suite.
Just like Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg got his
manservant Passepartout to accompany him, this freelance copyeditor with Time magazine was on the lookout for a companion.
In 2008, a couple in Italy sought to name their son Friday after Robinson Crusoe's
manservant.
He sets out to seize a Bank of England treasure ship only to storm The Beagle instead and capture a young Charles Dickens, and his primate
manservant Mister Bobo.
That motto that has served me well during my ill-fated spells as lion-tamer, Foreign Secretary and Boy George's
manservant, so I was pleased by Shahid Afridi's attitude in resigning as Pakistan captain after one Test match in charge.
But also count on Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand (presumably with hubby James Brolinhe is such a rock), Kate Capshaw and Steven Speilberg, Harold Ickes, Terry McAuliffe (he is basically Bill Clinton's
manservant at this point), former British Prime Minister John Major (what, no Blair?
Instead, she becomes part of a bizarre scientific research project conducted by the opium-addled, debt-ridden apothecary, with the help of his loathsome, treacherous
manservant, Edgar.
Who was the Tracy family's
manservant in the Gerry Anderson puppet show Thunderbirds?
IT stands to reason that if he's got a
manservant to hold his willy while he pees, Prince Charles would expect not to have to dip the royal tootsies into all that dirty flood water in Hull when he visited last week.
