Paravicini, Camilla 1
Parham Park, Sussex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Paris: finishing schools 1
Park Lane, London 1, 2, 3
Parker, Sir Harry, 6th Baronet 1
Parker, Admiral Hyde 1
Parker Bowles, Camilla (later HRH the Duchess of Cornwall) 1, 2, 3
Parson’s Pleasure 1
paying guests (‘PGs’) 1, 2, 3
Pearse, John 1
Pearson, Hon. Alicia 1, 2
Pearson, Hon. Clive 1, 2, 3
Pearson, Hon. Teresa (later Hon. Mrs. Stopford Sackville) 1, 2
Pearson family 1, 2
Pedlar, Esther 1
Pelissier, Tracy 1
Pembroke, Colonel ‘Dicky’ (author’s godfather) 1
Pembroke, Lord 1
Pepys, Lady Davina 1
Perry, Sarah 1
Perry, Stephanie 1
Perth 1
Perth Balls 1, 2
Perth Races 1
Peter Jones, Sloane Square, London 1, 2
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Buildings of England 1
Industrial Art in England 1
Pheasantry, King’s Road, London 1
Philip, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at the last presentations 1, 2
at the last presentation ceremony in Scotland 1
attempts to modernise the court 1
engaged to Princess Elizabeth 1
Phyllis Court, Henley-on-Thames 1
Picasso Café, King’s Road, London 1
Picture Post 1
Pilkington, Fiona 1
Pimlico, London 1
Pink Floyd 1
Plunket, Hon. Brinsley 1
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Pollock, Adam 1, 2
Polson family 1
Ponsonby, Sarah 1
Poole, Marian 1
Poole, Oliver (later 1st Baron Poole) 1
Portal, Lord 1
Porter, Cole: ‘You’re the Top’ 1
Portlaoise High Security Jail 1
Portobello, Petronella: How to be a Deb’s Mum 1
Poulett, Earl 1
Poulett, Lady Bridget 1
Poulton, Mrs (lady’s maid) 1
Powderham Castle, Devon 1
Powell, Anthony 1 Hearing Secret Harmonies 1
The Kindly Ones 1
Powell, Enoch 1
Powell, Tristan Alexander 1, 2
Powell, Lady Violet 1, 2
Prain, Tessa (Mrs Vere Fane, later Marchioness of Downshire) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
presentation ceremonies
and commercial profit 1
the curtsey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
curtsey technique still considered useful after 1958 1
evolved by Queen Charlotte 1, 2
the last curtsey in Scotland 1
the last deb to curtsey 1, 2
the last presentation days (1958) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
press attitudes 1, 2, 3
in Queen Victoria’s reign 1, 2
reasons for end of presentations 1, 2
role of 1, 2
Price, Dennis 1
Price, Dolours 1
Price, Marion 1
Price, Susan 1
Price, Tessa 1
Prince of Wales’s Drawing School 1
Pringle, Margaret 1
Priory, The, Haywards Heath, West Sussex 1
Private Eye magazine 1
Profumo, John 1, 2
Public Record Office 1
Pugh, Bronwen 1
Pulbrook and Gould 1
Pullar, Philippa 1
Punch 1
Purcell, Bobby 1
Quaglino’s restaurant, St James’s, London 1, 2
Quaich, Inverness-shire 1
Quant, Mary 1, 2
Queen Charlotte’s Birthday Ball 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Queen magazine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Queen’s Gate Gardens, South Kensington, London 1
Raban, Jonathan 1
Rabelais, François 1
Racehorse Owners’ Association 1
Raffles, King’s Road, London 1
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire 1
Rainier, Prince 1
Raven, Simon: The Old School 1
Ravensdale, Irene, Baroness 1, 2, 3
Rawlings Street Gang 1
Rawsthorne, Isabel 1
Raymond (Mr Teasy-Weasy) 1
Raynham Hall, Norfolk 1, 2
Reading University 1
Red Army Faction 1
Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent 1
Redesdale, Lord 1, 2
Redesdale family 1
Redgrave, Vanessa 1
Reed, Sir Carol 1
Regent’s Park, London 1, 2, 3
Reluctant Debutante, The (film) 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 1
Reynolds-Veitch, Mrs 1
Richardson, Samuel: Pamela 1
Riches, Mr and Mrs Edward 1
Riches, Penelope 1
Right Honourable Gentleman (Michael Dyne) 1
Riley-Smith, Dominie (Mrs George Courtauld) 1, 2, 3, 4 Curtains for Curtseys 1
Rippon, Angela 1
River Club, London 1
Rover Group car plant Robertson, Field Marshal Sir William Robert 1
Robins, Denise 1
Rodin, Auguste 1
Roedean School, Brighton 1, 2
Rolling Stones 1
Rollo, 13th Baron 1
Rollo, Hon. Helen 1
Rollo, Lady 1
Romanoff, Prince Alexander 1, 2, 3
Romilly, Esmond 1
Rommel, Erwin 1
Ronus, George 1, 2
Room at the Top (film) 1
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Ross, Professor Alan: ‘Linguistic Class-Indicators in Present-Day English’ 1
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Rowallan Castle, South Ayrshire 1, 2, 3
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Royal Academy of Arts, London 1, 2
Royal Aero Club 1
Royal Archives 1
Royal Artillery 1, 2, 3
Royal Ascot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 see also Ascot
Royal Caledonian Ball 1, 2, 3
Royal College of Art, London 1
Royal Company of Archers 1
Royal Court Theatre, London 1, 2, 3
royal family end of automatic deference 1
makes efforts to get out and meet the people 1
debs feel a close connection with 1
Royal Fine Art Commission 1
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1
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Rubens, Lady Rosemary 1, 2, 3
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St Anne’s College, Oxford 1
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St James’s Square, London 1
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St John’s Wood, London 1
St Margaret’s, Westminster, London 1,
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St Paul’s Cathedral, London 1
St
Paul’s School, London 1
Salima, Her Highness Princess see Croker-Poole, Sally
Salisbury, Lord 1
Samaritans 1
Sampson, Anthony: The Anatomy of Britain 1
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satire 1
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Savoy Hotel, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Scala theatre, London 1
Scotland in the 1950s 1
coming out dances 1, 2, 3, 4
the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ 1
Highland Summer Balls 1, 2
last presentation ceremony 1, 2, 3
the Royal Caledonian Ball 1, 2, 3
the Scottish Season 1, 2, 3, 4
shooting parties 1
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Scott, Mrs Jonathan see Loudon, Annabella
Seaview, Isle of Wight 1
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Second World War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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sex 1, 2, 3, 4
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shooting season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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Skye 1
Slade, Julian: Salad Days 1
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Southover Manor, Sussex 1
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Spanish Civil War 1
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Spencer, Earl 1
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Stopes, Marie: Radiant Motherhood 1
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The Years of Grace 1
Streatham Hill Theatre, London 1
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Stux-Rybar, Aileen (née Guinness) 1, 2, 3
Stux-Rybar, Valerian 1, 2
Suez crisis (1956) 1
Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk 1
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Sunderland House, London 1
Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of 1, 2
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Swallow, Charles 1
Swallow, Mrs Charles (Susanna Crawley) 1, 2
Swanborough, Lady 1
Sweeny, Brian 1
Sweeny, Charles 1, 2
Sweeny, Frances (later Duchess of Rutland) 1
Swinbrook, Oxfordshire 1
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) 1
Talbot, Laura see Chetwynd-Talbot, Lady Ursula
Tanfield, Paul 1
Taplow House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire 1
Tapsell, Sir Peter 1
Tate Gallery, London 1 Archives Department 1
Tatler magazine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Taylor, Allegra Kent 1, 2, 3, 4
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That Was The Week That Was (television satire programme) 1, 2
Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness 1, 2, 3
Theatre of Cruelty 1
Third Man, The (film) 1
Thomas, Margaret Haig (later Viscountess Rhondda): This Was My World 1
Thompson, Kay 1, 2
Thornton, Jeremy 1
Thynne, Lady Christopher (Antonia Palmer) 1
tiaras 1
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Tiarks, Henrietta (later Marchioness of Tavistock, then Duchess of Bedford) 1, 2, 3, 4
Tiarks, Henry 1
Tichborne, Sir Henry 1
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Time and Tide 1
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Times Higher Education Supplement 1, 2
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town houses 1, 2
see also individual names of houses
Townend, Peter 1
Townsend, Group Captain Peter 1, 2, 3
Townshend, 7th Marquess 1
Townshend, Lady Carolyn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Townshend, Marchioness 1, 2
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Townshend, ‘Turnip’, 2nd Viscount 1
Trenet, Charles 1
Trevor, William: The Story of Lucy Gault 1
Trooping the Colour 1
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Troubles, the Ir
ish 1, 2
Tuffin, Sally 1
Turner, J.M.W. 1
Twining, Stephen 1
Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family 1
Tynan, Kenneth 1
‘U and non-U’ 1, 2
Ullein-Reviczky, Lovice 1, 2
upper classes, loss of respect for 1
Ure, Mary 1
Urquhart, Bruce 1
Urquhart, Holly see Eley, Holly
Urquhart, John 1
Urquhart, Sir Thomas 1 Ekskubalauron (The Jewel) 1
Usher, Frank 1, 2, 3
Usk Prison, Monmouthshire 1
Vacani, Betty 1
Vacani, Madame Marguerite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vacani’s School of Dancing, Knightsbridge, London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vanbrugh, Sir John 1
Vanderbilt, Consuelo 1
Vanderbilt Racquet Club, Kensington 1, 2, 3, 4
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Cosima 1
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Jane 1, 2
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Sophia 1
Vanishing Houses of Ireland exhibition (1988) 1
Velázquez, Diego 1
Verlet, Madame Paul 1
Vermeer, Jan 1
Versen, Alexandra 1
Versen, Mrs Frederick 1
Victoria, Queen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Vincent, Lady Helen 1
Vogue 1
Vogue House Studios 1
Volkova, Vera 1
Vulliamy, Louis 1
Waddington, Gabriel 1, 2, 3
Waddington, Nesbit 1, 2, 3
Waddington, Sidney (née Montgomery) 1
Waddington family 1, 2
Wakefords, King’s Road, London 1
Waley, Arthur 1
Walford, Pamela 1
Walwyn, Peter 1
Ward, George, MP 1
Ward, Georgina 1, 2, 3
Warner, Marina: Monuments and Maidens 1
Warwick House, St James’s, London 1
Waugh, Evelyn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Brideshead Revisited 1, 2
Waugh, Laura 1
Waugh, Teresa 1, 2
Waymark, Mrs (Holloway bus conductress) 1
Week in Politics, A (television programme) 1
Wellington College, Berkshire 1
Welsh Guards 1
Wembley Stadium, London 1
West Heath Girls’ School, Sevenoaks, Kent 1
West Wing, Regent’s Park, London 1
Westminster, Duke of 1
Westminster Abbey, London 1
Westminster City Council 1
Westwood, Vivienne 1
Wethered, Roger 1
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