Art: London Season

Workmen rolled tubs full of pink and blue hydrangeas into the tunnel-like entrance of Burlington House early one morning last week in token that London's Social Season was about to begin. It is an ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord's.

The Private View is not...

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