Rosie’s fashion parade puts accent on posh
Ido hope she won’t frighten the horses with that accent. Rosie Fortescue — who went to Downe House Boarding School, the very same smart girls’ school as Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge — is jetting in next month to judge the Bollinger Best Dressed Lady Competition at the Punchestown Festival, which takes place from Tuesday April 24 to Saturday April 28 at the Kildare venue.
I’ll borrow a hat for the day from my old mucker, Philip Treacy, don’t you know?
Tragically, as much as I decry sexism, I can’t enter the Bollinger Best Dressed Lady Competition.
That hasn’t dampened Rosie’s gusto for the gunas at Punchestown next month however. “I can’t wait to see all the glamorous ladies in their best racing attire.
“I’ll be looking for someone that fits with Bollinger’s values and aspirations: elegant and iconic. And I’d personally love to win the prize of the VIP trip to Bollinger — sounds incredible,” the Made In Chelsea star told me exclusively.
Made in Ballymun, Guggi was at Cheltenham for the nags last week. Bono’s childhood friend and spiritual adviser to the Simon Carmody Community (a bunch of old nags if ever there was, but I digress) was seen out and about.
I imagine the sight of his hairdo — a style that went out with the Old Testament, unless there was a Peter Mark 2000 years ago in Mesopotamia — was sufficient to scare the horses.
Made In Tullamore, Brian Cowen (a former Taoiseach and a guy I have always liked personally) was also spotted, as was Goffs MD Henry Beeby and wife Vanessa, Lord Nick and Lady Alice Nugent of Ballinlough Castle in Co Westmeath, and Lord Ryanair himself Michael O’Leary. Rhona Blake, the beautiful high priestess of Irish public relations, was there with her debonair husband, Charlie Murless.
I wonder what Princess Anne and the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla (who were at Cheltenham last Tuesday and Wednesday respectively) thought of all the smart Irish? Who cares? (Oops, there goes my knighthood!)
Lots of the Irish beau monde at Cheltenham went straight from there last Friday evening or yesterday morning to London for the big Grand Slam decider at Twickers.