#receptions

The Princess of Wales, who is patron of the Rugby Football Union, said she enjoyed playing the sport with all her three children — including her ten-year-old daughter.

“Charlotte is playing rugby, but at home with the family. She isn’t yet at school, and I was asking how many schools are actually incorporating [it]. It’s such a great game, actually, they shouldn’t necessarily need to pigeonhole boys and girls into particular sports too early. Obviously as they get physically stronger … now, if I play at home, I do not want to get tackled by George, but … up to a certain age it’s great. Sports like swimming at school [are] still very much co-ed.”

Mayor LaGuardia and Marian Anderson at a reception in Anderson''s honor, April 16, 1939. Earlier in the year, the Daughters of the American Revolution had refused to let Anderson sing in Constitution Hall in Washington, which they owned, because of her race. The Secretary of the Interior, with President Roosevelt's blessing, then invited her to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, which she did on April 9 (Easter Sunday) before 75,000 people and a radio audience of millions.

Keep in mind that while the tables may be set for a whole posse of people and there is plush seating galore:

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of decor.

Meticulously put together, import flowers. Not a stem out of place.

Arrangements that cost a literal fortune.

Some coveted location that costs a literal wealth to rent.

With the finest dining, food, desserts, cake and entrees.