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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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Aug 2, 2019 · Soon after their passionate night together, Arthur Miller confirmed newspaper claims that Marylin Monroe is pregnant. While Marilyn became desperate to leave Arthur, Tony kept his distance until reports came in December 1958 that she had a miscarriage, three weeks before the birth of Jamie Lee.
Nov 1, 2006 · After coming out in 1958 – the last real deb’ year, the last time girls actually curtseyed to the Queen rather than a giant cake in a Park Lane hotel – she studied English at Oxford, and went on to join that hotbed of wild and dangerous ideas, The Guardian, as a kind of Swinging Sixties correspondent, interviewing difficult metropolitan ...
Jun 26, 2007 · 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.
- Fiona Maccarthy
Jun 13, 2020 · Last curtsey : the end of the debutantes. "'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.'.
May 4, 2023 · After their wedding, Prince William bows and then-Duchess Kate curtsies to Queen Elizabeth as they head back down the aisle of Westminster Abbey.
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An excerpt from Fiona MacCarthy: Half a century ago this week, a strange ceremony ended. I was among the last 400 girls arriving at Buckingham Palace to make our formal curtseys to the Queen. It was the usual wild March...