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...little girls of Roedean, Britain's most exclusive boarding school, were all lined up in their navy blue uniforms awaiting inspection by the Queen Mother. Moving down the line, the Queen Mother stopped before a leggy 13-year-old. As instructed, Sarah Miles curtsied. "Do you like it here at Roedean?'' inquired the Queen Mother graciously. Blurted Sarah: "I hate it," then curtsied again...
Sticks & Stones. Sarah's real-life precocity was long a marvel to her friends and a burden to her family. She was no early beauty. She had a face shaped like a teardrop and (she says) "ears that flapped like cabbage leaves." At Roedean she followed up her gaffe before the Queen Mother with other capers that ranged from throwing water on the headmistress to mayhem on the playing fields, where she broke the legs of two schoolmates ("but only one seriously-cricket is such a deadly dull game, I took aim at girls llegs"), cracked the collarbone...
...British gym slip clings fast, although it reveals nothing. The frosty comment of a spokeswoman for Brighton's Roedean School: "We have absolutely no intention of modifying our uniform." During the week, well-blossomed (35-24-36) Suzanne Cripps, 12, was asked to leave St. Helena's school for girls in Eastbourne. Reason: With her mother's consent, and after school hours, she got herself up in shorts and a halter, was photographed by newsmen. Her headmistress looked at the results, decided she was "much too precocious...
Street or Chequers [Anthony Eden's official residences] be able to neutralize the cold, calculating and implacable exploitation of human rights on which the whole Soviet technique for world domination is based? ... It would be just as practicable to invite two professional ladies from Paris to attend Roedean [England's most select girls' school] in the hope that they would marry archdeacons and live in respectability for the rest of their lives...
Alumnae are proud that World War II was partly won on the playing fields of Roedean, by Old Roedeaneans who became officers in the women's services, radio operators, ambulance drivers. Roedean itself was evacuated to Keswick, in the Lake District, while the Royal Navy took over its dormitories. The story goes that sailors billeted there almost wore out the buzzer system when they discovered neatly lettered signs: "If you want a mistress in the night, ring the bell...