Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 30th April 1923
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Dined at Claridge’s with Lord and Lady Curzon before the great charity ball she organised at Lansdowne House, which made £10,000 for hospitals and starting the season. The Prince of Wales very charming, Prince George pink, with his ‘just-spanked look’, Princess Helena Victoria,¹ Princess Patricia² and her husband Ramsay and others at dinner. The never-so-crowded restaurant rose like an army and remained standing until we were seated at a table at the far end of the room. After the ladies left the Prince of Wales and Lord Curzon had an animated, friendly conversation about the House of Lords. The ‘hush’ party of the other evening was not mentioned . . . although five of us at the dinner had participated.
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1. Victoria Louise Sophia Augusta Amelia Helena (1870-1948), Princess Helena Victoria, daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria; she was therefore the King’s cousin.
2. Princess Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth (1886-1974), known as ‘Princess Pat’, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria; therefore she was the King’s cousin. She married in 1919 Commander Alexander Ramsay (1881-1972), third son of the Earl of Dalhousie, aide-de-camp to her father, on which occasion she relinquished the style and title of Royal Highness and Princess and as the daughter of a duke became styled as Lady Patricia Ramsay.
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BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards announces the winners for 2023
Tilda Swinton, Savanah Leaf, Nadira Murray, Ben Roberts and Ella Glendinning at the BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards 2023. Courtesy of Oliver Holms
The winners of the second annual BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards were announced (Thursday), celebrating the creative audacity of three emerging UK filmmakers:
writer/director Ella Glendinning (director and cast of Is There Anybody Out There?)
writer/director/producer Savanah Leaf (writer/director of Earth Mama)
producer Nadira Murray (Winners)
Since 2022, CHANEL has partnered with the BFI and together they have created the Filmmaker Awards. The awards build on the House’s century of cultural patronage to inspire creativity, advance the new and the next, activate history to define the future, and supports the BFI’s mission to back the next generation of UK independent filmmaking talent.
These awards celebrate creative audacity and provide winning filmmakers with financial support of £20,000 each, allowing them to expand their practice and explore new ideas, cultivate co-creation and knowledge exchange, and widen the representation of voices in today’s cultural community.
The winners of the 2023 awards were selected by this year’s jury: Tilda Swinton, Academy Award winner, BFI Fellow and Global CHANEL Ambassador, Edward Enninful OBE, Editor-in-Chief, British Vogue and European Editorial Director, Vogue; Marie-Louise Khondji, producer and founder of Le Cinéma Club and Ben Roberts, BFI Chief Executive.
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Self-portrait with Keith, standing behind with cigarette, 1961 - by John Claridge (1944), English
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New Pics of Sam Heughan in London today, November 2, 2023 attending The Rake XV Anniversary Party at Claridge's ArtSpace. Looks like he also caught up with his good friend Matt Neal.
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Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl). Love Comes Softly (2003).
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Jenna Coleman arrives at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2023 at Claridge's Hotel on November 19, 2023 in London, England.
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