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...flight list could be taken from any U.S. school or college roster-Paine, Prentice, Chrysler,Cushing, Welch. Their fathers were businessmen, and about half could be found in the Social Register. Where were they going? To a coming out party at Britain's ancient Blenheim Palace for an American friend, Serena Russell, who also happens to be the granddaughter of the tenth Duke of Marlborough...
...Blenheim party also celebrated the coming of age of Serena's uncle, Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, who is also studying in the U.S. Thus Serena and her school friends from Foxcroft, and Lord Charles' college friends rubbed shoulders with most of Debrett, led by Princess Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon (who was recently just a photographer), the Marquess of Blandford (heir to the dukedom) and his Greek wife Tina (who was recently Mrs. Aristotle Onassis). and Princess d'Arenberg (who was recently Peggy Bancroft of New York...
...practice of conferring titles on union leaders, newspaper owners and even photographers, has never been highly exclusive, and for the most part amiably accepts the swirling new International Set. And despite death duties, a duke can still manage quite a bash, as witness this week's party in Blenheim Palace...
Much of Churchill's accident-prone life is a monument to the healing properties of brandy and tobacco. His disasters started as early as birth, when his U.S.-born mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, seven months pregnant, felt labor pains in the middle of a ball at Blenheim Palace. Attendants were unable to rush her to a bedroom, and Winston made a spectacular entrance in a nearby cloakroom...
...would be all we should have of it, except 40 millions of debts and three other wars that have grown out of it." Dramatic criticism? Cymbeline seemed "as long as if everybody in it really went to Italy in every act, and came back again." Interior decoration? "Blenheim looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland." But there are the big set pieces too-the coronation of George II, the beheading of the Jacobite lords...