Charles McDowell recalls misbehaving at a debutante dance, July 1982
I met Peter Townend, the social editor of Tatler, at a Conservative summer ball in 1980 or 1981. I was in my early 20s, living in Kensington and working for Tiffany as part of their sales team. Peter came up to me and said: “Would you like to come to some of my parties?” And I, not really knowing what they were, but being young and game for a laugh, said yes. I gave him my name and address, and then a few weeks later all these fabulous invitations started arriving in the post.
Peter is widely credited as being the man who single-handedly kept the debutante “season” going for decades; he would suggest to parents that their daughters should be debs that year, and wouldn’t they like to host a party? I was what was called a “debs’ delight” – one of the men chosen by Peter to attend all these balls and dances.
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