Royal Ascot

The Milliners' Collective

Ascot Anecdotes – Part 2

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] When is a week not a week? In modern times, only a small minority of those closely involved in racing are able to devote more than one day to Royal Ascot week. In the Georgian era, however, Ascot truly became a social extravaganza and Ascot “week” was extended to […]

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Ascot Anecdotes

Ascot Anecdotes – Part 3

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Ascot Anecdotes – Pt3 An Ascot lady beats the bookies at their own game After the First World War, betting enjoyed a huge surge in popularity. One of Ascot’s most unusual and successful bookmakers was a woman. Mrs Helen Vernet was an heiress who had squandered her entire fortune

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Ascot Anecdotes – Part 4

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Ascot Anecdotes – Part 4 A scandal on the cards It is hard to imagine today that the major political parties would have any use for the Royal Ascot racecard as a means of propaganda, but in the politics-obsessed world of the 1840s, that is exactly what they

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Ascot Anecdotes – Part 5

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Cockneys need not apply We are used to Ascot, like all racecourses throughout Britain, being open and welcoming to all who are interested in the sport. But the newspapers and journals of the 19th century felt no hesitation in registering their horror at the sight of the masses descending

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Royal Ascot Bowler Hats

Ascot Anecdotes – Part 6

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Staff bowled over by dress code The wearing of Bowler Hats by the Ascot Stewards is a tradition that is proudly protected and maintained by the longer serving stewards. However the dress instruction was met with near mutiny when it was introduced in the late 1950s in an

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Royal Ascot Bowler Hats

Royal Ascot 2014: Review

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Did you enjoy Royal Ascot? You might enjoy our Review too! Please click on the link below to read the turn-page online magazine review: https://www.joomag.com/en/newsstand/2014-royal-ascot-review-june-2014/0533546001404143004 [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https://www.eclipsemagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RoyalAscotReview2014cover.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher

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Royal Enclosure Dress Code

Royal Ascot & the Royal Enclosure Dress Code

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Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot

Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot to be run in memory of Sir Henry Cecil

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font_size=”14″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot Ascot Racecourse has announced that the 2013 Queen’s Vase, to be run next Friday, 21 June, will be titled ‘The Queen’s Vase In Memory of Sir Henry Cecil’. Allison GrahamAllison is the Publisher of Eclipse Magazine. She loves going

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Royal Ascot – 30 facts from 300 years

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Racing for Change highlights “30 facts you need to know” about Royal Ascot, as part of its Tercentenary celebrations. 1. It was Queen Anne who first saw the potential for a racecourse at Ascot three centuries ago. 2. The first race meeting ever held on

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