A Year In The Life Of Downton Abbey: Seasonal Celebrations, Traditions, And Recipes - Plot & Excerpts
It signified their overnight transformation from child to young woman – the moment, in short, when they exited the schoolroom and entered the ballroom. Not their wedding, but their presentation at court, marking them out as a debutante for the London Season. For Lady Rose MacClare, cousin of Robert and the charge of the Granthams while her parents are abroad, it is a chance to buy new dresses, make new friends and, hopefully, pick up a handsome suitor or two. The tradition of introducing men and women to the monarch by way of validating their aristocratic status had been going on since Elizabeth I, but the debutante season took on its formal shape under King George III (1760–1820), when young girls were first recorded as being presented during his wife Queen Charlotte’s birthday ball. The ball itself died when the King did and was only revived in 1925 as a charitable event (and led to the myth of debs curtseying to a giant birthday cake – in fact, they curtseyed to the president of the ball, who stood beside the cake).
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