The London Season began under a cloudless sky with two brilliant courts at Buckingham Palace, and will end after four days' racing at Ascot (June 16-20).
First Court. Assembled in the Throne room were about 1,000 guests. The men were clad in brilliant uniforms, bemedaled and bedecorated. The ladies, in a riot of gorgeous color, provided a spectacle more brilliant than any witnessed since 1914. At 9:30 o'clock in the evening, the King, in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Life Guards, and the Queen, draped in a gown of silver tissue, entered the...
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