Tuesday June 24, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Stock take at 10am. A £30 deficit. No staff. Sir John Colville's book came in the post, and I flicked through the pages with great excitement.

Viscount Lowther, son of the Earl of Lonsdale, married Miss Angela Wyatt, daughter of Capt Peter Wyatt, RN (retired), on Saturday. I have to keep notes of these sort of things because my copy of Burke's Peerage is 30 years old.

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Monday June 23, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Brewery meeting at the Raynville in Bramley. Samuel went for tea to Karen and Steve's. He and Hayley are very compatible. Karen is so very much like Hilda. Back from the Raynville at 8:30. Fish & chips. Watch a vid of 'Pride and Prejudice', the Olivier version. Maureen and Liz were below and cleaning up and nattering until 11:20.

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Sunday June 22, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

4th Sunday after Trinity

Maradona: hand ball .... or something.

Mags at lunch. Roast chicken. England was defeated by Argentina. A hand ball by Maradona, or something. Bev and Karin did PM. 

Yesterday we received an invitation to the wedding on August 9, of cousin Jacqueline and Barry Raistrick. Startled. We want to go but what about baby? Jacqueline was born on August 9, 1956.

Prince Edward has passed his final history exams at Cambridge University and has been awarded a Class II, Division II degree. 'Highly respectable', says the university. I predict that one day Prince Edward will be Duke of Cambridge.

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Saturday June 21, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Longest Day

Fox & Hounds, Starbotton

Prince William of Wales is four. We went out at 4pm to Hilda's where she has Hayley and Thomas for the afternoon. Samuel played with Hayley digging up Tony's flower beds and dropping bricks into the ornamental pond. ______. Hilda offered to have Samuel if Ally should have to go suddenly to hospital, and if we have no other babysitters. In the post we received details of the pub at Starbotton. It's on the market for £160,000. Over priced, but Ally phoned Frank to enquire about loans, and he quipped that one day we will have all the money we need, i.e. when he's dead, which Ally found morbid and not in the least bit helpful.

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Friday June 20, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

That demure Danish girl the Duchess of Gloucester is 40 today. In another, less tranquil wing of Kensington Palace, more bother from Princess Michael of Kent, who announced yesterday in a published notice that she and Prince Michael would be attending Roya Ascot. This broke protocol because attendance at Royal Ascot is a private engagement. Poor Marie-Christine.

Janette phoned this morning with her wedding plans. It is the Yorkshire Rose, as mentioned by Dad the other day. She says her mother is now to boycott the marriage because it's taking place on English soil. 

I went through my address book and invited people to a fancy dress "When England Win the World Cup" party for next Friday, no Saturday June 28. I spoke to Sarah Collis, who was at Delia's. She says she will come but I cannot bring myself to believe this.

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Thursday June 19, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds, LS11 5NQ

Shibden Hall.

Mum and Dad married 32 years ago today. So sad. Day off in Bradford. Ally had a scan at 9:30 and Samuel and I went in for the performance. Pictures of the baby flashed on a screen but I could make nothing of them. The midwife says baby has its head down and is all in place and looking good. Afterwards we had a drive out and ended up at Shibden Hall, near Halifax, where Samuel bounced on a 'jumping castle' and then we went on a miniature train , walked round the lake, ate ice-creams, &c. Very pleasant. I know Shibden Hall from old, but had quite forgotten about the place. Had a pizza in town at Giuseppe's Backyard.

News: The Kents attended the Channon funeral yesterday. A baby Bowes Lyon and future Earl of Strathmore has been born to Lady Glamis, who is a sister of Mrs Nicholas Soames. Pool match here.

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Wednesday June 18, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds, LS11 5NQ

Waterloo, 1815. Jennie Rawnsley, 1969. LG came in and grimly announced that I have missed this years bonus by a fraction. Trade didn't pick up until the beginning of May - too late to save me apparently. Phoned Dad. He says Hilda has phoned him to say she's heard from John and Janette re the wedding plans and that they are having the reception at the Yorkshire Rose, Guiseley. It's news to us. Dad wants to go to Lanzarote with Arnold and may even be away for his sons nuptials. 

The Queen met Mrs Barrantes in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot yesterday. Major Ferguson was injured while playing polo when an opponent's stick broke giving the him a gash on the forehead. At Ascots all the ladies were in spots.

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Tuesday June 17, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds, LS11 5NQ

Royal Ascot. Lady Diana Cooper has shook a seven. She only survived her old friend the Duchess of Windsor by a few weeks. Lord Althorp has gone on TV-AM to make an anti-drugs plea following the death of his friend Olivia Channon. Evidently, he saw Miss Channon on the day before her untimely death. "Champagne" Charlie Althorp has a 'fast' reputation, I fear. Susan Barrantes has flown in for next month's wedding with her Argentinian polo playing husband, who is also a guest. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd writes in the DT on the subject of Prince Andrew's surname and whether or not he'll use the Mountbatten-Windsor appelation on his marriage certificate. Charles didn't. Anne did. The name should not come into use until Andrew has a grandson in the male line. Will I be here?

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Monday June 16, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

Hot. Summer's here. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year. 81F in London. Bill Foggitt says we will enjoy good weather for the rest of June based on the high activity of ants in the gardens. 

Duke of Kent: KG

Samantha has a middle name. It's Kay. They picked it out of the blue.  This afternoon we walked up to the nursery school or kindergarten thing on Hunslet Hall Road where we were told Samuel is no nearer getting a place. One would think it was Millfield. Sod them. Bessie phoned. 

News: the Duke of Kent was installed at St George's Chapel as a KG wearing the robes that belonged to his father and have been packed away in a box for half a century. Prince George was appointed to the order in 1923 on his 21st birthday, but his son has had to wait until he is 50. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson attended the wedding on Saturday of the Hon Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, son of Lord Radnot, to Jane Gilmour, daughter of Sir Ian Gilmour, and a descendant of the ducal Abercorns, from whom Fergie and Diana also stem.

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Sunday June 15, 1986

  Moorhouse Inn, Leeds, LS11 5NQ

3rd Sunday after Trinity

Father's Day

Up for my Sunday papers and sat over breakfast reading about the Prince of Wales who has expressed serious concern about the discrimination against blacks in the Guards regiments and the Household Cavalry. ___________. Dad moved on. We went to Sue's and drank beer in the garden. Jim and Margaret are queer. They took the boys on the moor at Burley Woodhead leaving Sam wit us. Busy tonight. We took £400. It was Father's Day.

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