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...Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon the royal equestrians. At the Ascot riding show, Princess Anne, 11, trying a bit too hard to please the judge, Queen Elizabeth, lost out on the prizes by faulting four times-once for riding so high in her stirrups on a hurdle that she came close to a spill. At Windsor, Prince Charles, 13, nearly went jodhpurs...
...full-grown nymph (not played by Lahr, but by a half-wrapped nougat named Patricia Englund). And his last ideal cracks like a bone when his friend and adviser, a dedicated artist named Goddard Quagmeyer, sells out to Hollywood, puts on a purple beret, salmon-colored suit, orange ascot, pink shirt, and develops nine simultaneous tics. He is further disillusioned when he meets the president of Charnel House, a publisher with a marked resemblance to Publisher Bennett (Random House) Cerf, who announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there...
...divorced by Earl Cadogan (who owns one-quarter of London's arty Chelsea district) on the ground of adultery with the earl's former accountant. "If this pace keeps up," said one Londoner, "there will soon be no one on the Queen's lawn at Ascot [to which divorced persons are never invited] except Prince Philip and the Queen herself...
Explains Jocelyn Stevens, editor of the glossy fashion magazine, Queen: "Society smiles on all the up-and-coming money and enjoys it. but then withdraws into its own inner circle." In Stevens' world, the,socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
...field recently waterlogged by spring rains, Britain's polo season got into full swing with Prince Philip leading the Windsor Park team to a 4-to-3½-goal victory over Ascot. Philip scored a goal, also took a tumble from his mount in the fray. Among the royal onlookers were Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece, and bonny Prince Charles, 10, a husky broth of a lad in zipper jacket and boots...