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1. www.telegraph.co.uk › news › uknewsRecalling the lost era of the debutantes - The Telegraph

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   Mar 16, 2008 · We learned the technique from Madame Vacani, a dancing teacher who held a kind of royal warrant for the curtsey. A Vacani curtsey was part of the mystique.

2. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiUK | Magazine | Come on out, girls - BBC News

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   Sep 16, 2009 · In the latter years of the ball, while working as principal at the Vacani School of Dance, Ms Fallowfield for a time took on the task of teaching debutantes to curtsey and to waltz. "They'd...

3. www.scotsman.com › arts-and-culture › booksConfessions of a secret deb - The Scotsman

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   Oct 7, 2006 · Madame Vacani, "who had something of the manner of a genteel sergeant major" as she trained prospective debutantes, would urge: "Now darlings, throw out your little chests and burst your little...

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   Mar 29, 2020 · Madame Vacani teaches three debutantes how to curtsey in 1936 Hulton Archive. Things were, if anything, even more rigid in America, where, by the 1890s, the sale of new-world heiresses in...

5. www.gettyimages.ca › detail › news-photoRoyal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches three debutantes ...

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   Royal dance instructor Madame Vacani teaches three debutantes the correct way to curtsey, 2nd July 1936. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

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   Mar 7, 2023 · History tells us that the last debutante, Sandra Seagram, presented at Buckingham Palace to the royal family, curtseyed to the Queen Mother and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on July 17, 1958 (via Ottawa City News). Unfortunately, Queen Elizabeth II couldn't attend due to illness.

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   Did Fiona MacCarthy learn a curtsey?

   • In her characteristically thoughtful but detached memoir, Fiona MacCarthy chronicled the rigorous training at Vacani’s School of Dancing, where a correctly performed curtsey was regarded as a vital life skill (“Now darlings, throw out your little chests and burst your little dresses”).

   Fiona MacCarthy, biographer who caused a sensation by revealing Eric

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   When was the last time a debutant curtseyed before the Queen?

   • You may be surprised to find out that the practice of presenting debutantes to the English monarch continued into the mid-20 th century, per Country Life. The last debutantes curtseyed before the Queen in 1958.

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   What did the last debutantes do before the Queen?

   • The last debutantes curtseyed before the Queen in 1958. While some of the women used this time to snatch up husbands, others went on to college and careers in various fields ranging from editing to aerospace. Here are some of their fascinating stories as the last participants in a 2-century-old tradition.

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   What happened to curtseys after 1958?

   • After the Lord Chamberlain's announcement that curtseys would be ceasing after 1958, there was a record number of applications for the final presentations, like a wave of panic buying. One mother was said to have presented all four of her daughters. Under-age girls were brought out of boarding school to curtsey.

   Recalling the lost era of the debutantes - The Telegraph

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   What is a curtsey ceremony?

   • The ceremony, or something like it, had been going for 200 years. The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market.

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   When did the curtsey ritual start?

   • The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries the system grew and solidified.

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   Mar 6, 2020 · In her characteristically thoughtful but detached memoir, Fiona MacCarthy chronicled the rigorous training at Vacani’s School of Dancing, where a correctly performed curtsey was regarded as a...