59 year old gossip
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:49 pm
One reason for my particular affection for English obituaries, from the obituary of Pat Kirkwood, who died Christmas day at aged 86.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... db2901.xmlIn October 1948 Baron brought his friend Prince Philip on from a meeting of the all-male Thursday Club in Soho and introduced him to Pat Kirkwood in her dressing-room.
The trio went on to dine at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Mayfair, and afterwards, when Pat Kirkwood and Prince Philip were seen dancing together for several hours at the Milroy nightclub - at a time when the heiress presumptive, Princess Elizabeth, was eight months pregnant with the child who is now Prince Charles - there was worldwide media speculation that was to continue for decades.
Rumours, originating in White's Club, insisted that Prince Philip had given Pat Kirkwood a white Rolls-Royce, though Pat Kirkwood consistently and vehemently denied suggestions of an affair.