Word: ascot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word "Ascot," when associated with horses, evokes images of traditional English pomp: prestigious races held before large crowds of stylish, high-society spectators...
Saturday at the Ascot Riding Academy in Ipswich, Mass., however, a decidedly non-traditional event took place...
...outset of the courtship. Though the couple first met on a polo field when both of them were four, their romance was sparked not by a sudden glance or even a heartfelt declaration but, well, by a profiterole actually. The cupid's confection came into play at Ascot last year, when a boisterous Andrew put his arm around Fergie and tried to stuff the cream-filled cake into her mouth. The girl who last week vowed to obey him winged the pastry back at his royal person...
Diana seems to have had the match in mind for some time, but romantic sparks did not fly between the pair until chocolate profiteroles did, one afternoon last June at Ascot. He tried to make her eat some; she wasn't having any and playfully threw them at him. Bull's-eye. "There are always humble beginnings," said the zinged Andrew at a press conference last week. "It's got to start somewhere." Currently "over the moon" and hoping for a late-summer wedding in Westminster Abbey, the couple kissed happily for the cameras. Then the bride-to-be gave...
...there life after marriage?" asks one person. "No," Crisp answers definitively. "Do you think Nancy Reagan is a woman in drag?" asks another. "If she were, she'd be so much more feminine," he replies after fiddling with his magenta ascot for inspiration...