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...bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburban homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid luxuriousness of life here in Kent County...
Chinese in the Tub. To older Britons, Ogilvy's robust charm and self-assurance recall Alexandra's father, the Duke of Kent, who was killed in a wartime plane crash when she was five. Left with a lessthan-princely income, the duke's widow, handsome, Greek-born Princess Marina, raised her children modestly. "Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand...
...famed estate at Cliveden. "I know a lot of very important people and am often received in some of the most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty girls," he says. "I am sensitive to the needs and the stresses of modern living." To the great and near great. Ward introduced "attractive young girls like Christine Keeler...
What was a ceremony becomes a seduction-or is it a wedding night? The lovers, danced with moody excitement by Allegra Kent and Edward Villella, are circled by their attendants and stripped of their outer robes. In bikini and tights, they dance a pulsing pas de deux that ends in a crouching embrace. Their attendants return, tug them apart and restore their robes, but the partnered dance that follows suggests the first steps of the love duet. The ballet ends-a courtly, exotic, unresolved sexual fantasy...
London, already astir with preparations for the April wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent, 26, to Angus Ogilvy, 34, second son of the Earl of Airlie, began to bubble in earnest as effervescent Alexandra announced that her chief bridesmaid for the ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be Princess Anne, 12. The couple's gift list, filed at Harrods of Knightsbridge as a handy guide for friends, indicates that they would welcome, among other things, bathroom scales, a portable barbecue, an onyx cigarette box, a toaster, Swedish decanters...