QUOTE(splinky @ Jun 11 2009, 05:23 PM)

QUOTE(yvonne johnson @ Jun 11 2009, 05:21 PM)

Princess Margaret and Armstrong Jones--ghastly, silly people, but they did look cool sometimes.

they always spoke very highly of you, Y
Ah, yes, on the Britannia, sailing towards Valetta, Malta, our port, when Margaret looked over at me and asked if I'd like just one other cigarette before bed as all the lights dimmed in the small villages surrounding the headland. Chivers, always reliable, appeared with a tray of gins and tonic with Armstrong Jones closely behind. How long would this life hovering like a butterfly, between societal mores and the free longing of unbounded friendship last, I wondered?
[OK, way too much
Brideshead Revisited lately.]