HOUSE-WARMING PARTY
Royel Guests At Home Of U.S. Ambassador (Special Correspondent N-ZJP.A.) __ _ LONDON. February 23 . S u^ n and the Du * e of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Sir Winston and Lady Churchill. dined , and danced at a George Washington birthday party given as a house-warming celebration by the United States Ambassador (Mr Winthrop Aldrich) and Mrs Aldrich at Winfield House, the new Ambassadorial residence in Regent’s Park. It is a 40-roomed mansion given as as home for American. Ambassadors in London by the heiress, Barbara Hutton. Mr Aldrich is the-first Ambassador who has been able to afford to live in it Its bath taps are gold, there is an indoor swimming pool, and the staircases came from French chateaux. It stands in 12 acres of ground—the second largest country estate in London. The largest is Buckingham Palace. Sixty guests were entertained at dinner in the State diningroom, and at 11 p.m. they were joined by 240 others for dancing.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27593, 25 February 1955, Page 2
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