The Queens event organiser has revealed her tips for a top soirée. They also include round tables and fancy – but not too-fancy – invites. We seek information from three other top planners if shes on the moneyHow to throw the perfect party: sit all the bores together and stop it when there are at least 20 people on the dancefloor. So says Lady Elizabeth Anson,who as the Queen’s party planner for more than half a century has presumably seated a lot of bores in her time. In a weird New York Times interview, in which she sipped tea from a purple tankard purchased on eBay and confessed to using the codename “Shirley Temple” for the Queen, and Lady Elizabeth spilled the secrets of the screened-off world of ultra-posh parties.“She has broken the first rule of party planning,” says Sarah Haywood, one of the most influential wedding planners in the world according to Paris Match. “Never talk approximately your clients. It’s extraordinary. If I did that, and I wouldn’t have a business.” What approximately her tips? “Very grand,” she concedes. “Lady Elizabeth is the person who made party planning fashionable.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com