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From 1711 to the Year of Grace, the Ascot races have marked the end of 214 social seasons. Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet...
...first day, the King's horse Aloysia won the Queen Mary's Stakes. The Coronation Stakes were captured by Lord Astor's Saucy Sue and the all-important Ascot Gold Cup with a money prize of $20,000 was carried off by Andrew Barclay Walker's Santorh, ridden by that most famed of British jockeys, Steve Donoghue, six times a winner of the Derby...
...days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
...Lady Randolph Churchill's habit of wearing about her neck a little medal with the portraits of her two sons created a sort of fashion which led to similar commissions on the part of many other people. . . . The Queen** greeted me with a good morning in a gentle, agreeable voice. . . . 'Do you play bridge?' the Prince asked me. 'No, Sir, 1 have never had the opportunity to learn, nor do I possess the necessary mental concentration for the game,' was my reply. . . . There was a light tap at the door and a messenger entered...
...being ashamed of my lack of knowledge, like your correspondent Monsieur Beaucaire (TIME, June 1), I cast aside such titles as Madame Bernhardt, Queen Elizabeth, etc. -and hasten to sign myself...