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The Corsair has been rapt -- rapt! -- to the computer monitor in anticipation of NYSocialDiary's social X-ray of British social mores. David Patrick Columbia doesn't disappoint. Today, DPC writes on his visit to Buckingham Palace:
"White jacketed waiters and waitresses passed out trays of a soft drink and flutes of Mumm�?s champagne. By 7 o�?clock there were more than a hundred gathered in this vast room, the men in black tie and the women mainly in long dresses. The Dowager Viscountess Rothermere was the chairman of the evening where they raised more than 2 million pounds (more than $3.7 million) for the Philharmonia. The Viscountess Rothermere, widow of the late presslord (the Daily Mail) Vere Rothermere hardly seems old enough to be regarded as dowager. A Japanese woman who lived for years in Paris, she was dressed in a rosey-pink taffeta gown by Vivian Westwood that suggested Balenciaga or maybe Charles James.
"... About quarter to eight the Prince of Wales entered the crowd accompanied by his bride. In person, the Prince is not very tall, somewhat slight and with a large head."
Oh dear. All that inbreeding can have inverse effects. I say, did it resemble the look and feel of a pumpkin, or an unruly summer squash?
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