... BE1BRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, REGATTA Major H. Musker and Lord Ruthven The Redwings made a charming picture as they manoeuvred at the start of their race Mrs. L. F. Phillips and Miss Haig Thomas Miss Imogen Chichester, Sir Derrick Gunston and Mr. Alastair Campbell after the racing was over Miss Julia Collins, Mr. Sam Browne and Lord Brabazon who had all been sailing in Lord Brabazon s yacht Tara ...

... The Regatta held recently by the Bembridge Sailing Club at Under Tyne, near Bembridge, was the occasion of some keen racing under excellent weather conditions Miss Cochrane sailing Slievenamon No. 2, and Mr. R. Jansens Ibis in the Redwing class Capt. Dermot Musher up the mast of the yacht Ladybird Mrs. T. Fenwick, Mrs. Hugh Collins and Mrs. Guy Blcivilt pulling their dinghy above high-ivater ...

... The Fair has come to the Island and what a fair Swings and roundabouts, flying-boats, booths, sweet-stalls, a lottery wheel at which one could win anything from a paper rose to a live duck, so long as one kept at it long enough at 20 francs a time, and, best of all to a village where the local cinema only opens Saturdays and Sundays, showing year-old films, a theatre. Such a beautiful frontage ...

... Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill at the Mirabelle. Lady Rupert Nevill was formerly Lady Camilla Wallop, daughter of the Earl of Portsmouth Miss Mary Brock-Edwards, who is the daughter of Lady Chesham, with Captain John Ford at the Bagatelle Lord Luke of Pavenham and Lady Luke at the Mirabelle. Lord Luke succeeded his father, the first Baron, in 1943 Major C. R. Scott and his wife, Lady Elizabeth ...

... Lady Sykes is the wife of Sir Richard Sykes, Bart., whom she married in 1942, and is the only daughter of Captain John Francis Grey Gilliat. Her son, Tatton Christopher Mark, will be three years old on Christmas Eve. Sir Richard is the owner of a famous racehorse stud at his beautiful home, Sledmere, in Yorkshire, and has several good horses in training. He is the seventh baronet and succeeded ...

... FEW men in the diplomatic world change with greater ease and speed from idiomatically flaw less, mellifluous, accentless English to Heidelberg German and Sorbonne French (or Leyden Dutch) than the Netherlands Ambassador at St. James's, His Excellency Jonkheer E. Michiels van Verduynen. Strong hands rise to stress a point, and then gently adjust the adjusted tie. The searching, deep-set eyes ...

... THE REGENCY A description of the brilliant epoch which inspired the recent Regency Festival at Brighton THE Regency historically only dates with the last decade of George III., when the Prince of Wales acted as Regent in his place after I8II. But artistically and socially, the period extends from his coming of age to his death as King George IV. Then it was in I830 that the expiring monarch ...

... Lord Allerton, Colonel G. de Chair, O.B.E., M.C., and Sir Alfred Munnings, President of the Royal Academy, were three of the judges Mr. R. L. BrignaU, of Dingley, Market Har- borough who won the Light Weight Hunter Class, talking to Lady Munnings Lt.-Col. C. T. Walwyn, M.C., D.S.O., awards first prize in the juvenile Jumping Event to Miss Pamela Lucas Hollowav, Northampton ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Rather eedan Bastian M ajor Lord Rather eedan, T he Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, of Bellehatch Park, Henley-on-Thames, married Miss Ann Pauline Bastian, elder daughter of the late Surg.-Capt. William Bastian, R.N., and of Mrs. L. Bastian, of Queen's Gardens, W. 2, at the Crypt Chapel of the House of Commons ...

... His Excellency Dr. Paul J. Ruegger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Switzerland to Great Britain since 1944, is the subject of the first of The Tatler's new series, At the Court of St. James's, 011 page 195. Dr. Ruegger is not only the Swiss Republic's outstanding diplomat, but also an author of widespread repute, and several of his books 011 international law were ...

... She will act at the Comedie Frangaise. Never before have the French extended such an honour to an English actress THE internationally famous Comédie Francaise has broken a three-hundred-years-old tradition hy its recent invitation to Pamela Stirling to play in the company-- a tribute the more remarkable in view of her youth, for she is only twenty-five years of age. Her first part will be to ...

... IADY GEORGE SCOTT, wife of Lord George Montagu-Douglas-Scott, has been staying at Bexhill with her children, and they have shared a hut at Cooden Beach with the family of Lieut.-Colonel Anthony Stocker, of the 22nd Dragoon Guards. Colonel Stocker and his family are ideally situated for the holiday season as they have a charming country house at Moleyne's Mede, near Bexhill, in the garden of ...