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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhiwfield, post: 392934, member: 924&quot;]In a lot of ephemera we found <a href="https://www.penllyncollectables.co.uk/autographs-and-letters/peter-townend-letters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.penllyncollectables.co.uk/autographs-and-letters/peter-townend-letters" rel="nofollow">a number of letters</a> sent to Peter Townend, the organiser of the Deb&#039;s season in the UK between 1958 and 2000. The practice of presenting debs to Court stopped in 1958 and Townend was a larger than life character, editor of Burke&#039;s Peerage and Social Editor of The Tatler <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1334368/Peter-Townend.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1334368/Peter-Townend.html" rel="nofollow">(read the Telegraph obituary</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>It was interesting to research how these privileged young people progressed in life, some drifted into obscurity, others became movers and shakers. While the letters are mostly banal, the stories behind some of them are anything but, including one from a Cambridge undergraduate who later had the misfortune to be publicly outed by the Serbians.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: now I had put a link to this story but for some reason the link would not work. So just search for a Sunday Times&nbsp; article &quot;Vengeful Serbs betray..&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Shades of James Bond![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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