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...Nowadays everybody fiddles," admitted an Inland Revenue man. It was about the only way to get one's supper at crowded places like Les Ambassadeurs (bill for two: $35), or to make one's appearance in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot (including a new dress each day, de rigueur for one's wife: $1,400 for the week...
...visit would be too expensive. In the British Parliament, Bevanite and near-Bevan-ite Socialists were once again raising the cry that royalty was too costly ($1,700,000 a year) and too undemocratic. A Socialist scolded the Queen for maintaining a private enclosure for the horse races at Ascot; a Methodist minister scolded her for going to races at all ("They are full of racketeers"). The same outraged Methodist berated the Duke of Edinburgh for playing polo on Sunday, while the leftists howled that he took too much interest in politics. (In a speech at Edinburgh, Philip had cautiously...
...Suffolk, I jumped at the chance to tag along. You've got to understand, this guy is no professional tout. Mike has practically worked his way through school helping long-shot jockeys boot 'cm across with controlled body English. Besides, it was opening day; you know, sort of like Ascot or Churchill Drowns only with chinos and beer...
Winston Churchill & wife returned to London from a two-week holiday on the Riviera, traveled to the Ascot Heath race track a few days later, got there just in time to see his filly, Loving Cup, finish next to last in the Kensington Palace Stakes...
...wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...