Tea with the Queen is light on pomp, heavy on circumstance
It is one of the splendid rites of the English summer: the Queen's garden party at Buckingham Palace. On a sun-kissed July afternoon last week, 8,000 guests came to tea with Her Majesty. Among those invited was TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo. Her report:
At the Queen's yearly series of three garden fetes, blueblooded palace regulars literally rub elbows with ruddy-faced first-timers from towns across the country. The accents differ, but the purpose is the same to walk among the royals. Well,...
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