Last Curtsey

  Paravicini, Camilla 1

  Parham Park, Sussex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Paris: finishing schools 1

  Park Lane, London 1, 2, 3

  Parker, Sir Harry, 6th Baronet 1

  Parker, Admiral Hyde 1

  Parker Bowles, Camilla (later HRH the Duchess of Cornwall) 1, 2, 3

  Parson’s Pleasure 1

  paying guests (‘PGs’) 1, 2, 3

  Pearse, John 1

  Pearson, Hon. Alicia 1, 2

  Pearson, Hon. Clive 1, 2, 3

  Pearson, Hon. Teresa (later Hon. Mrs. Stopford Sackville) 1, 2

  Pearson family 1, 2

  Pedlar, Esther 1

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  Pembroke, Colonel ‘Dicky’ (author’s godfather) 1

  Pembroke, Lord 1

  Pepys, Lady Davina 1

  Perry, Sarah 1

  Perry, Stephanie 1

  Perth 1

  Perth Balls 1, 2

  Perth Races 1

  Peter Jones, Sloane Square, London 1, 2

  Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Buildings of England 1

  Industrial Art in England 1

  Pheasantry, King’s Road, London 1

  Philip, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at the last presentations 1, 2

  at the last presentation ceremony in Scotland 1

  attempts to modernise the court 1

  engaged to Princess Elizabeth 1

  Phyllis Court, Henley-on-Thames 1

  Picasso Café, King’s Road, London 1

  Picture Post 1

  Pilkington, Fiona 1

  Pimlico, London 1

  Pink Floyd 1

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  Plunket, Hon. Shaun 1

  Pollock, Adam 1, 2

  Polson family 1

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  Poole, Oliver (later 1st Baron Poole) 1

  Portal, Lord 1

  Porter, Cole: ‘You’re the Top’ 1

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  Portobello, Petronella: How to be a Deb’s Mum 1

  Poulett, Earl 1

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  Poulton, Mrs (lady’s maid) 1

  Powderham Castle, Devon 1

  Powell, Anthony 1 Hearing Secret Harmonies 1

  The Kindly Ones 1

  Powell, Enoch 1

  Powell, Tristan Alexander 1, 2

  Powell, Lady Violet 1, 2

  Prain, Tessa (Mrs Vere Fane, later Marchioness of Downshire) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  presentation ceremonies

  and commercial profit 1

  the curtsey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  curtsey technique still considered useful after 1958 1

  evolved by Queen Charlotte 1, 2

  the last curtsey in Scotland 1

  the last deb to curtsey 1, 2

  the last presentation days (1958) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  press attitudes 1, 2, 3

  in Queen Victoria’s reign 1, 2

  reasons for end of presentations 1, 2

  role of 1, 2

  Price, Dennis 1

  Price, Dolours 1

  Price, Marion 1

  Price, Susan 1

  Price, Tessa 1

  Prince of Wales’s Drawing School 1

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  Punch 1

  Purcell, Bobby 1

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  Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Ball 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15

  Queen magazine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Queen’s Gate Gardens, South Kensington, London 1

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  Racehorse Owners’ Association 1

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  Ragley Hall, Warwickshire 1

  Rainier, Prince 1

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  Right Honourable Gentleman (Michael Dyne) 1

  Riley-Smith, Dominie (Mrs George Courtauld) 1, 2, 3, 4 Curtains for Curtseys 1

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  Rosenthal, Norman 1

  Ross, Professor Alan: ‘Linguistic Class-Indicators in Present-Day English’ 1

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  Royal College of Art, London 1

  Royal Company of Archers 1

  Royal Court Theatre, London 1, 2, 3

  royal family end of automatic deference 1

  makes efforts to get out and meet the people 1

  debs feel a close connection with 1

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  Sadruddin, Prince (Aga Khan’s uncle) 1

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  St Cloud, France 1

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  St James’s Palace, London 1, 2, 3

  St James’s Square, London 1

  St John of Bletso, Lady 1

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  St Margaret’s, Westminster, London 1,

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  St Paul’s Cathedral, London 1

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Paul’s School, London 1

  Salima, Her Highness Princess see Croker-Poole, Sally

  Salisbury, Lord 1

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  Sampson, Anthony: The Anatomy of Britain 1

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  coming out dances 1, 2, 3, 4

  the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ 1

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  last presentation ceremony 1, 2, 3

  the Royal Caledonian Ball 1, 2, 3

  the Scottish Season 1, 2, 3, 4

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  Scott, Mrs Jonathan see Loudon, Annabella

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  ‘shabby chic’ 1

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  Shrewsbury, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of 1, 2

  Shrewsbury, John Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of 1

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  Sinclair, Andrew 1 My Friend Judas 1

  The Breaking of Bumbo 1, 2, 3, 4

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  Southover Manor, Sussex 1

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  Spencer, Diana see Diana, HRH Princess

  Spencer, Earl 1

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  Stanley prison camp, Hong Kong 1

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  Stapleton, David 1

  State Opening of Parliament 1

  Staynes, Jillian 1

  Steinberg, ‘Baby’ (née Hannah Anne Wolfson) 1, 2, 3

  Steinberg, Jack 1

  Steinberg, Raymonde 1, 2, 3

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  Stevens, Jocelyn 1, 2

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  Stucley, Christine (Lady Cobbold) 1, 2, 3 Board Meetings in the Bath 1

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  Stux-Rybar, Aileen (née Guinness) 1, 2, 3

  Stux-Rybar, Valerian 1, 2

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  Sweeny, Frances (later Duchess of Rutland) 1

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  Taylor, Allegra Kent 1, 2, 3, 4

  Taylor, Diane 1

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  Theatre of Cruelty 1

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  Thomas, Margaret Haig (later Viscountess Rhondda): This Was My World 1

  Thompson, Kay 1, 2

  Thornton, Jeremy 1

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  tiaras 1

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  Tiarks, Henry 1

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  Tonge, Caroline 1

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  Tottenham Claimants’ Union 1

  Town and Gown café, Oxford 1

  town houses 1, 2

  see also individual names of houses

  Townend, Peter 1

  Townsend, Group Captain Peter 1, 2, 3

  Townshend, 7th Marquess 1

  Townshend, Lady Carolyn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Townshend, Marchioness 1, 2

  Townshend, Sir Roger 1

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  Trenet, Charles 1

  Trevor, William: The Story of Lucy Gault 1

  Trooping the Colour 1

  Troubador café, Fulham Road, London 1

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ish 1, 2

  Tuffin, Sally 1

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  Twining, Stephen 1

  Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family 1

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  ‘U and non-U’ 1, 2

  Ullein-Reviczky, Lovice 1, 2

  upper classes, loss of respect for 1

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  Urquhart, Bruce 1

  Urquhart, Holly see Eley, Holly

  Urquhart, John 1

  Urquhart, Sir Thomas 1 Ekskubalauron (The Jewel) 1

  Usher, Frank 1, 2, 3

  Usk Prison, Monmouthshire 1

  Vacani, Betty 1

  Vacani, Madame Marguerite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Vacani’s School of Dancing, Knightsbridge, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Vanbrugh, Sir John 1

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  Vanderbilt Racquet Club, Kensington 1, 2, 3, 4

  Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Cosima 1

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  Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Sophia 1

  Vanishing Houses of Ireland exhibition (1988) 1

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  Vermeer, Jan 1

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  Versen, Mrs Frederick 1

  Victoria, Queen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Vincent, Lady Helen 1

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  Waddington, Gabriel 1, 2, 3

  Waddington, Nesbit 1, 2, 3

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  Waddington family 1, 2

  Wakefords, King’s Road, London 1

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  Ward, Georgina 1, 2, 3

  Warner, Marina: Monuments and Maidens 1

  Warwick House, St James’s, London 1

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  Waugh, Teresa 1, 2

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