Crown Princess Margrethe, Prince George and Princess Anne joined King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark for the Anglo-Danish Society Dinner and Dance at the May Fair Hotel in London on this day in 1955, 70 years ago!
King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid of Denmark were joined by Crown Princess Margrethe, Prince George and Princess Anne for the Dinner and Dance given by the Anglo-Danish Society at the May Fair Hotel in London.
THE ANGLO-DANISH SOCIETY: A dinner and dance, attended by Their Majesties the King and Queen of Denmark and their daughter Princess Margrethe, was given by the Anglo-Danish Society at the May Fair Hotel last month. It is described by our Social Editor on this page.
Whilst the King and Queen of Denmark were here last month on a private visit, they attended the dinner and dance given by the Anglo-Danish Society at the May Fair Hotel. It was an unexpected honour for the members of the Society and their guests, and the presence of the Royal visitors and their daughter Princess Margrethe, who accompanied them, added to the enjoyment of the evening.
In the ballroom, where dinner was served, a curved embrasure immediately behind the centre of the Royal table was draped in white, and here the flags of the two countries were placed–the scarlet and white of the Danish flag being repeated in the magnificent floral decorations in two urns on pedestals at either side, and again in the flowers and candles on the tables.
King Frederik and Queen Ingrid sat on either side of Count Brockenhuus-Schack, the Chairman of the Council, Her Majesty wore a lovely dress of white satin with a raised design of mimosa embroidered in pale yellow silk, and a diamond tiara and necklace, and diamond and pearl-drop ear-rings.
Other guests at the table included Prince Georg and Princess Anne of Denmark, Countess Brockenhuus-Schack, the Danish Ambassador and Mme. de Steensen-Leth, Major the Hon. Gwilym and Mrs. Lloyd George, Mr. Peter Thorney-croft, Earl and Countess Beauchamp, the latter wearing a magnificent pearl and diamond tiara, and Mr. Viggo Kampmann, the Danish Minister of Finance, whose first visit to London this was, and his wife, Mme. Kampmann.
Princess Margrethe, who looked enchanting in a ballerina-length dress of apple-green organza with a pink stole, sat at another table with a group of young people. They included the Danish Ambassador’s two daughters, Miss Julie and Miss Anne de Steensen-Leth, Miss Dagmar Brocken-huus-Schack, Mr. Mark Jeffries, Mr. John Chancellor and Mr. Peter Stanley. At the end of an excellent dinner, Count Brockenhuus-Schack, in his speech, paid tribute to Sir Charles Hambro, the former Chairman of the Council, who was at the dinner with Lady Hambro. Major Lloyd George then spoke, and amused everyone with his account of when he visited Denmark as Minister of Food–he was a little disconcerted to see in a newspaper ” Mad Minister Arrives,” but was reassured on being told that ” mad ” is the Danish word for ” food ” ! The two other speakers were Mr. Viggo Kampmann and Mr. Peter Thorneycroft. After dinner the tables in the centre of the ballroom (which has recently been most attractively redecorated in a pale shade of French grey) were cleared for dancing. King Frederik and Queen Ingrid sat with the guests who had dined at their table and watched the dancing until midnight. Princess Margrethe opened the dance with Mr. Mark Jeffries and danced frequently throughout the evening.
Among the many guests were Sir Malcolm Sargent, who had dined at the Royal table, as had Sir Harold and Lady Caccia, Sir Norman and Lady Kipping, and Major-General and Mrs. Dewing. Brigadier Sir Norman Gwatkin, Sir Hugh and Lady Gurney and Count and Countess Knuth were dining at another table, and other guests I saw were Viscount Moore, whose wife was one of the most beautiful women there that evening, Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Eley, Mr. and Mrs. John Waring and Dame Adeline Genée-Isitt.
Queen Ingrid wore the Khedive of Egypt Tiara and the Diamond Earrings and Brooch suspended from the Danish Diamond Rivière.
Prince George and Princess Anne of Denmark wore her Diamond Tiara and Diamond Necklace
Earl and Countess Beauchamp, the latter wearing a magnificent pearl and diamond tiara
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