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"'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's Look Back in Anger - the last of the debutantes, myself among them, went to the Palace to curtsey to the Queen.' Fiona MacCarthy and her fellow 'debs' were taking part in one of the final rituals of aristocratic power. The system had been in operation almost unchanged since the eighteenth century. It was a female rite of passage, an elaborate initiation ceremony marking the emergence of the virgin out of the schoolroom and into society at the…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2011Faber & Faber, Incorporated · 9780571265817
- Other · English · 2007Faber & Faber, Limited · 320 pages · 9780571228607
- Other · English · 2006Faber and Faber · 305 pages · 9780571228591
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