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...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...
BORN. To Sarah Menikides Starkey, 25, receptionist, and her husband since January, Zak Starkey, 19, pop drummer following in the footsteps of his famous father Ringo Starr: a daughter, their first child; in Ascot, England. Name: Tatia Jayne. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz. Ringo, 45, thus becomes the first grandfather Beatle...
...seems wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...
...Royal-watcher knows that there's more to these ceremonies than meets the eye. Ascot a horse racing festival created by Edward VII, gives most of the family a hefty dose of boredom. They all have to indulge the Queen's love for the ponies. Prince Philip, forcing a smile for the crowds, conceals a radio in his top had to listen to a cricket match, before disappearing backstage to catch up on work. Princess Diana complains about having to go. The Queen Mother slyly slips two pounds to a footman to wager on a horse. If the steed wins...
...gossip and scandal, there are many better places to look. For example, most of the above tidbits about Ascot come from a much newsier source, the classic 1983 Book of Royal Lists Barry, who apparently was fired by Princess Diana shortly after the marriage, pulls too many punches in this, the second volume of his memories of 15 years of laying out clothes for the Prince of Wales...