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Si yo hubiese sido Elena o Cristina en ese momento, habria puesto mis ojos en cualquier otro lugar,
fijos, en otro lugar, hasta que los fulanos hubiesen estado ya fuera de mi vista. No les deben genuflexion ni besamano,
por lo tanto la mirada debio haber sido desviada hacia otro lugar. ( ese habria sido un" PEINE "!!! como decia
un buen amigo mio.) No mirar ni siquiera al hermanito, simplemente quieta...
.(uy, es mucho pedir! habia que verla y usar las tijeras mentales ...para el postre )

 

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The secrets of Margaret's London

• Monday 11 February 2002 00:00 GMT

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House of Douglas-Home

Princess Margaret met 35-year-old socialite and pianist Robin at his home here during their affair in late 1966 and early 1967. They shared a love of show songs, particularly George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern. While she sang he played on the piano. But it lasted only a month before the press seized on rumours of an affair. Margaret later wrote to Douglas-Home breaking off the affair, writing that "Our love has the passionate scent of newmown grass and lilies about it" and promising to return to him one day. Douglas-Home never recovered and took an overdose of pills. Princess Margaret did not attend the funeral.

1a Clock House

The Princess and husband moved here in 1963. It took up one complete wing of the palace's quadrangle and with four storeys and 21 rooms was far grander than No 10. It had not been renovated since 1891 and restoration was required at a cost of £85,000. The bulk of the money came from the Government, provoking protests in Parliament. The centrepiece was the drawing room, with kingfisher blue walls, pale grey curtains, apricot and gold carpet.

Nan's Kitchen

A short walk from Margaret and Lord Snowdon's apartment in Kensington Palace, Nan's Kitchen, which opened in 1966, soon became a favourite. They would slip in at around 9.30pm, usually sitting at table 1 or 2 in a discreet booth at the back on the ground floor and eat their favourite dish Chicken Pie (4d6p) together. Sometimes they dined with Prince Michael of Kent - the Prince and Princess Michael remain regular customers - sometimes they sent their butler down from Kensington Palace to collect a take-away. In the early Seventies the restaurant changed its name to Maggie Jones in honour of its most famous clients.

Mirabelle Restaurant

Popular with film stars such as Laurence Olivier, the Mirabelle was famed for its beautiful garden. The Princess's favourite table was in an alcove overlooking a fountain and an immense bank of flowers which provided a multicoloured background even in winter. Polish managing director Erwin Schleyen used to invite chefs from other world-famous restaurants around the world. The restaurant is now run by Marco Pierre White.

Deal's

When Viscount Linley opened the first of his - now failed - restaurants in 1988, his mother Princess Margaret was a regular guest, helping give the restaurant some much-needed glamour. She appears to have avoided the food, sticking mainly, one former manager says,"to telling jokes and drinking plenty of gin and tonic". Linley and fellow owner Patrick Lichfield put the restaurant up for sale in 1998 after running into severe debt.

Wiltons

Another favourite restaurant of the Princess. Established in 1742 it retained a Victorian atmosphere with waitresses in white coats and head waiters in morning suits. Eating there in December 1964 with her friend Lord Plunket she could have chosen from oysters, English seafood and game classics or even pate de foie en croute at 35 shillings and mushrooms on toast at seven and six.

Home of Rory McEwen

Margaret and Snowdon would drop in at their friend, folk singer and artist Rory McEwen's three-storey home for parties. At one, George Harrison told Princess Margaret he had been arrested and charged for possession of drugs and asked if she could get the charges dropped. She told him: "I don't really think so. It could become a little sticky". Harrison's sister Paula then offered the Princess a drag on a joint being passed around the room. Margaret and

Quaglino's

The exclusive "Quags" was decorated in red and white with two crystal chandeliers in the cocktail lounge. The Princess's table near the dance floor was known as "The Royal Enclosure". She would enter and leave by the side door. Dinner cost around £5 per head including wine in the early 1950s. Popular dishes included Steak Diane, which was invented by founders Quaglino brothers, and sole Quaglino, cooked in champagne and brandy. After becoming less fashionable in the 1970s, the restaurant was relaunched by Sir Terence Conran in 1993.

20 Pimlico Road

Antony Armstrong-Jones had a studio in a run-down block of Victorian flats wedged between the Sunlight Laundry and an antique shop. On the ground floor was the studio, darkroom and secretary's office with a bed for guests in a recess. A spiral staircase designed by Armstrong-Jones led to his living quarters, decorated with bric-a-brac. Here the photographer entertained an eclectic mixture of guests drawn from fashion, the arts, advertising and showbusiness, many of them gay. Determined to keep their developing relationship a secret, Princess Margaret exercised great care when visiting No. 20, wearing a scarf and sunglasses.

Ronnie Scott's

Run by East End jazzman Ronnie Scott --famous for his on-stage jokes as much as his saxophone playing - this was another venue popular with Margaret. In March 1969 Princess Margaret was photographed leaving the club, which by now had moved to bigger premises on Frith Street, after watching Kenny Clarke's International All-Star Band with Peter Sellers and the actress Samantha Eggar.

400 club

Known as "Les A", the restaurant, located in a town house built by the Rothschild family, was one of Margaret's favourite after dinner nightspots in the 1950s. Among her many friends to join her was the actor Peter Sellers. On one occasion band leader Paul Adam encouraged her to join in at the piano and sing. It was owned by John Mills, a 6ft 3in-tall, 21 stone former Polish army officer. Subscription was seven guineas a year which included the Milroy Club downstairs. It was popular with young gamblers such as John Aspinall who in 1956 had a fight with Neville Clark, former racing manager to the Maharanee of Baroda over a debt. Onlooker Robert Mitcham said he wished the fight had gone on longer.

Westminster Abbey

Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey on Friday, 6 May, 1960. With a princess marrying a commoner the wedding was a mix of the modern and traditional. It was the first royal wedding to be televised but the last in which the royal ladies wore fully formal, floor length dresses. Determined to put on a big show of unity the Royal Family invited all the crowned heads of Europe, many related to Margaret and the Queen. But one by one they declined, not wishing to be associated with her marriage to a photographer.

Les Ambassadeurs/Milroy Club

Known as "The night time headquarters of Society", this was the Princess's favourite nightclub in the early 1950s where she could be seen two or three times a week with Billy Wallace and Colin Tennant. Her table, which was hidden by pillars, became known as the "Royal Box". The long, thin P-shaped basement club had a minute dance floor but a bandstand big enough for an 18-piece orchestra.

Cafe de Paris

The nightclub was a favourite with the Princess for its cabarets. She would often attend the opening nights with friends such as Lord Plunket and Dominic Elliot. The club had a strict rule of evening dress only downstairs, so in 1954, when the Princess arrived for Jack Buchanan's opening night wearing only a simple day dress, she courteously insisted on watching from the balcony to avoid embarrassing the manager. The cabaret performers came down redcarpetted steps, illuminated by pink spotlights. When she went to see Noel Coward there in 1951 the audience was cut to 350 from the 500 capacity to give her room to dance. As she left the club, usually at around 1am after dining on lobster and steak, the Ambrose Orchestra would often play one of her favourite tunes, such as Lizzie Borden.

Prospect of Whitby

One of the East End's oldest and most famous pubs, frequented by tourists, artists and celebrities. It was a favourite of Princess Margaret and her friends in the mid-sixties. It's stone-flag floors, yellow-wash walls and pewter bar was redolent of London's dockland history of thieves, sailors, and stevedores and provided a contrasting backdrop for the glitzy crowd that would come from 'Up West' for a night out. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco also popped in during the late sixties.

59 Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey

A small terraced house backing onto the Thames among dockland warehouses and council flats. It was owned by journalist William Glenton. Armstrong-Jones rented a groundfloor room which he whitewashed and furnished simply. By March 1959 he felt confident enough to invite Margaret to Bermondsey, following his split from the actress Jacqui Chan. Margaret called it "the little white room." They ate shepherd's pie cooked by Armstrong-Jones, drank cheap wine from the local off-licence, washed the dishes in the small sink and called each other 'pet' and 'love'. Margaret would arrive wearing a headscarf and dark glasses to conceal her identity from Glenton. In 1964 the local authority condemned the row of houses and demolished them. As a parting gesture the couple threw the double divan they had bought for a pound out of the window and watched it drift along the Thames.

The Party Princess

Que descanse en PAZ!

 

[catwoman]

Que descanse en PAZ!

Opino igual... No lo he colgado como crítica sino como ilustración.. Quizás , si a mi me hubieran impedido ir, vivir o casarme con el hombre del que estuviera enamorada, habría hecho lo mismo.. Me da muchísima pena como la destrozaron entre unos y otros....

 

[catwoman]

Si yo hubiese sido Elena o Cristina en ese momento, habria puesto mis ojos en cualquier otro lugar,
fijos, en otro lugar, hasta que los fulanos hubiesen estado ya fuera de mi vista. No les deben genuflexion ni besamano,
por lo tanto la mirada debio haber sido desviada hacia otro lugar. ( ese habria sido un" PEINE "!!! como decia
un buen amigo mio.) No mirar ni siquiera al hermanito, simplemente quieta...
.(uy, es mucho pedir! habia que verla y usar las tijeras mentales ...para el postre )

Una "PEINETA", en España... por cierto tengo fotos y memes de "peinetas" preciosisimas.. cuando las cuelgo en facebook son muy compartidas

 

[catwoman]

En aquel tiempo la que cortaba el bacalao era la zu Sayn. Con la abdicación se le acabó el negocio. La leti no tiene nada que ver en todo eso. El viejo y la Cori están a otro nivel de pillos y sinvergüenzas. Pero aquí solo se ve leti, leti...que obsesión. Por cierto, me gusta el vestido del funeral. Bonito aunque caro, pero no a los niveles de Valentino o Armani de otras royals.

Bingo , hasta sinvergüenzas, puntualizo...

 

[catwoman]

Este funeral es como todas las Onomásticas... tiene octavas...

 

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Una "PEINETA", en España... por cierto tengo fotos y memes de "peinetas" preciosisimas.. cuando las cuelgo en facebook son muy compartidas

Una "PEINETA", en España... por cierto tengo fotos y memes de "peinetas" preciosisimas.. cuando las cuelgo en facebook son muy compartidas

La "peineta" yo siempre la asocio conel traje Flamenco, o con el de Maja de Espana.
( nunca con el "dedo vulgar" que ahora le dicen peineta) Cuentame: te refieres a estribillos?

 

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Estoy de acuerdo. Si tan difícil lo ponen para salir...me iría por mi cuenta y adiós muy buenas, porque si lo que creí ya no lo creo..tampoco importan las cortapisas que me pongan.

ESO! Eso es lo que se llama "libre Agencia" " Libre alberdrio" No puede estarse en algo en lo que uno no cree, SIN EMBARGO
si entras a uno de esos templos ( o cualquier templo) el respeto no quita lo valiente.

 

[Yonosoyprinzesa]

Perdona que te haya corregido.

Perdonada

 

[Los Chones.]

ESO! Eso es lo que se llama "libre Agencia" " Libre alberdrio" No puede estarse en algo en lo que uno no cree, SIN EMBARGO
si entras a uno de esos templos ( o cualquier templo) el respeto no quita lo valiente.

De acuerdo contigo. Lo cortés no quita lo valiente...y hay que respetar para poder pedir respeto.

Saludos.

 

[catwoman]

La "peineta" yo siempre la asocio conel traje Flamenco, o con el de Maja de Espana.
( nunca con el "dedo vulgar" que ahora le dicen peineta) Cuentame: te refieres a estribillos?

Con permiso del personal y pidiendo disculpas..La peineta -el accesorio- también sirve para sujetar la mantilla... La otra , es esta..

 

[catwoman]

Bingo , hasta sinvergüenzas, puntualizo...

Y añado con respecto a la segunda parte , referida a la "oportunidad" del vestido .. ¿ no dijeron que serian "austeros"? ¿ qué entienden por "austeridad " para "solidarizarse" con un ciudadano que sufre una crisis criminal como consecuencia de excesos, robos y corrupción. Fantástica demostración de empatía lucir un modelito de un precio tan "austero", como muestra de "solidaridad"... un 10...