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...Cafritz has not done much better. Last fall, at her annual Supreme Court party, not a single justice snowed up. More recently, she did manage to snare Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges for an evening "just in the middle of that steel crisis." But her party honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was a real bomb; the Maxwell Taylors and Ormsby-Gores were there, but the affair was mostly populated by people like the ambassador from Iceland. So bad have things got that the old rivals, Perle and Gwen, now attend one another's parties...
...ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
...Duchess of Richmond's celebrated ball for Wellington's officers, on the eve of Waterloo, was a mere fish fry in comparison with the goings-on nowadays at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Jack and Jackie Kennedy's talent for serving up a dazzling concoction of beauty and brains, politics and culture, shamrocks and chandeliers is enough to boggle the most jaded eyes. Last week, at a couple of brilliant levees, the President and his First Lady did it again-and again...
...loyal subject and obedient taxpayer, I would like to inquire of the sovereign who is footing the bill for the Grand Tour of the Duke and Duchess of McLean...
...owned by the government, it was once a private residence. Once, when Queen Victoria visited, its splendor moved her to say to the owner's wife, the Duchess of Sutherland: "My dear, I come from my house to your palace."† KADU stands for Kenya African Democratic Union; KANU, Kenya African National Union...