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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 · 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.

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showLast Curtsey by Fiona MacCarthy - Goodreads

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   Jan 5, 2006 · MacCarthy herself was one of the last débutantes to be presented to the Queen, and in this book she traces both the history of the custom and what happened to those women in 1958, what futures they carved out for themselves.

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3. www.tommcmahon.net › 2008 › 03The Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutante Era In 1958

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   Why did it stop so suddenly in 1958? It turns out that by analyzing the iridium layer they found out it was a big asteroid that hit off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. 03/18/2008 in History | Permalink

4. www.amazon.com › Last-Curtsey-Debutantes-FionaLast Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes (Picture Lions S.)

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   Jul 7, 2011 · Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end.

   • Author: Fiona MacCarthy

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   Jul 7, 2011 · Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly during the 1960s, and the certainties of the old order came to an end. Print length. 326 pages. Language. English. Sticky notes. On Kindle Scribe. Publisher.

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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.

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   What happened in 1958?

   • The year 1958 was in fact the watershed between the formal worlds of our parents and grandparents and the brasher, more freewheeling and flexible society that we all inhabit now. Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy is published by Faber and Faber

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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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   Was there a party in 1958?

   • There were certainly a lot of terrific parties in 1958. In the weeks before our debut, our mothers had already been working hard exchanging lists of eligible men, eliminating those reputed to be NSIT (Not Safe in Taxis), MTF (Must Touch Flesh) or VVSITPQ (Very Very Safe in Taxis Probably Queer).

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8. www.worldcat.org › title › Last-curtsey-:-the-end-ofLast curtsey : the end of the debutantes | WorldCat.org

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   Summary: "'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's Look Back in Anger - the last of the debutantes, myself among them, went to the Palace to curtsey to the Queen.'