Andrew Morton Quote

It was a memorable night of riotous jollity. Princess Margaret attached a balloon to her tiara, Prince Andrew tied another to the tails of his dinner jacket while royal bar staff dispensed a cocktail called A Long Slow Comfortable Screw up against the Throne. Rory Scott recalls dancing with Diana in front of the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and embarrassing himself by continually standing on Diana’s toes.The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God, Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones: It says here they have live music, as though it had just been invented. Diana’s brother, Charles, just down from Eton, vividly remembers bowing to one of the waiters. He was absolutely weighed down with medals, he recalls, and by that stage, with so many royal people there, I was in automatic bowing mode. I bowed and he looked surprised. Then he asked me if I wanted a drink.For most of the guests the evening passed in a haze of euphoria. It was an intoxicatingly happy atmosphere, recalls Adam Russell. Everyone horribly drunk and then catching taxis in the early hours, it was a blur, a glorious, happy blur.