Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this outbreak of sputtering over the mores of our dear English cousins? I'm still looking for the countess who swiped my dog tags from my fashionable South Kensington flat back...
...have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There's no point in inviting people you don't get a chance to visit with," says Host Fairbanks, and a liberal sprinkling of titles, of course...
...Kensington dramatic school she won the cup for the best acting of a first-year student (earlier names on the cup: Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft). She was not exactly popular with her classmates. One of them remembers 14-year-old Claire as "sort of fey-she didn't have her feet on the ground at all. You'd be talking to her and suddenly she'd do a pirouette and you knew she hadn't been listening to you at all. Everything had to be rather beautiful, people had to be poetic-looking. She couldn...
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...
...Poland, the French Croix de Guerre, the Order of the British Empire, and Britain's George Medal for Special Services. But with peace, it seemed, Britain had no more need of her bravery. As Christine Granville (one of her undercover aliases), she took a room in a respectable Kensington family hotel and started job hunting. Too proud to mention either her medals or her war service, she was turned down time & again . as a foreigner. She worked for a while as a $14-a-week salesgirl in Harrod's department store and as a cloakroom attendant...