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   Aug 24, 2021 · Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Next Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a world on the cusp of change...set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons.

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   • Author: Georgie Blalock

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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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4. www.bbc.co.uk › 10 › last_debutantes_featureBBC - London - History - Last Debutantes

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   Jun 10, 2008 · An exhibition charting that final debutante season – The Last Debutantes – is now on show at Kensington Palace (in the late Princess Margaret’s old apartments).

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   Jul 17, 2008 · In March 1958, 1,400 teenage girls were presented to The Queen. They were the final debutantes, marking the end of a ritual that spanned 200 years and was imitated across the English-speaking world.

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   Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Last Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a world on the cusp of change...set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons.

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   Jul 13, 2016 · The last season when debutantes were formally presented at court, 1958 was also a year of social unrest and political activism, and the exhibition is careful to cover both.

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   Where is 'the last debutantes' on show?

   • An exhibition charting that final debutante season – The Last Debutantes – is now on show at Kensington Palace (in the late Princess Margaret’s old apartments). "I was away from home for the first time in my life. Wow!

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   When was the last time debutantes were presented at court?

   • The last season when debutantes were formally presented at court, 1958 was also a year of social unrest and political activism, and the exhibition is careful to cover both.

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   Did 'the last debutantes' end a era?

   • Fifty years later, ‘The Last Debutantes’, a new exhibition at Kensington Palace, rediscovers that vanished realm. Fiona MacCarthy, former deb and author of Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes, says that there was a ‘certain melancholy’ among those 1958 debs who realised that their coming out marked the end of an era.

   The last debutantes - Country Life

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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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   Is the last Debutantes a YA book?

   • #TheLastDebutantes #NetGalley The Last Debutantes was another novel that used the English Debutante season as a backdrop to a woman’s coming of age story. This book read like a YA novel because of the emphasis on gossip, gowns, and gentleman callers.

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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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