Bush's Niece Makes Her Paris Debut --->>>

[Stephanie]

These people really believe they are royalty. No wonder George thinks he is King. I'm so sick of them all.

1. Ashley Bush was escorted by Prince Ashley Poniatowski. Miss Bush prefers theatre to politics and wants to become an actress. Ralph Lauren designed her elegant periwinkle blue gown for her.

New York Social Diary
Paris, France 2005
by R. Couri Hay

‘Tis the season for the world’s loveliest young girls to begin blossoming into young women. This rite of passage is known as “coming out “ as in making one’s formal “ debut” into high society.

These girls are called debutantes. Some became glamour girls of their generations such as Barbara Hutton in 1931, Brenda Frazier in 1938 and Jacqueline Bouvier,later Jackie Kennedy Onassis, in 1947 and Charlotte Ford in 1959.

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Miss Bush was a vision in a periwinkle blue gown with a train by Ralph Lauren, and a pearl tiara by Mikimoto Her 21-year-old sister Lauren Bush wore a black Ralph Lauren gown with an opera length strand of pearls. Her beau is David Lauren, the son of Ralph Lauren.

I attended the ball with the girls’ mother Sharon Bush who wore a divine green velvet column by Naeem Khan and her own blinding chandelier diamond earrings. Other New Yorkers at the ball included John deNeufville, Vogue magazine contributing editor Alexandra Kotur, Teen People Editor Kimball Hastings, Vanity Fair Editor Punch Hutton, and celebrity modeling agent Christine Schott who was checking out this years crop of girls for potential modeling contracts. Schott represents both Lauren and Ashley Bush and Amanda Hearst.

Once upon a time, aristocratic young ladies from the United Kingdom waited breathlessly for their eighteenth birthday. It was then that they were presented to His or Her Majesty, the King or Queen of England. After that the season’s all important balls began. This Anglo-Saxon tradition of being presented at court ended in 1958 but there are still important balls in London, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. The two Southern balls take place during Mardi Gras and called are called Comos and Rex, Comos being the crème de la crème of the two.

http://www.nysocialdiary.com/socialdiary/2005/01_04_06/socialdiary01_04_06.php

[Greeby]

1. Oh well, there is the forgotten third twin, Flora Bush

http://www.florabush.com/

:evilgrin:

[Ian David]

2. First the blood and then the boys! Say it, Eve was weak!

I can see her dirty pillows.

[LeftNYC]

3. An actress?

Freakin Librul Hollywood. Laura, I'll get Karl to tap her phone.

[Bluebear]

4. In FRANCE yet, freepers! So downhome, so "just like us"! nt

[Caution]

5. Can we leave the non-politicals out of the discussion?

I have relatives I'm not proud of too. This woman may want absolutely nothing to do with politics, may not be a right-winger and certainly shouldnt be attacked just because of her name.

[Stephanie]

9. Who attacked her? I am just announcing her Paris debut.

Is that info restricted to the in-crowd? Don't the masses have the right to know that Neil's daughter is parading around Paris in a couture gown? Did he buy it for her with his Silverado money? Just wondering.

[Caution]

13. Whatever.

These people really believe they are royalty. No wonder George thinks he is King. I'm so sick of them all.

[Stephanie]

15. If that's an attack your skin is quite thin.

However, I do find it rather outrageous that this President has half the country snowed that he's a regular guy, a rancher, someone you want to have a beer with, when the truth is he comes from one of the most elite families in the world, with an immense fortune, a family compound in Maine, private prep schools, Ivy League colleges, and Paris debuts. Maybe I'm stupid, but I find it RELEVANT. They have perpetrated a SNOW JOB on the American people and the press has aided them and I am doing my best to SPREAD THE TRUTH. This little "debut" is part of the Bush story. Maybe they'd like to keep it to themselves. In which case, they should try not to have their gowns and their diamond chandelier earriings and their pearl tiaras described in the SOCIETY pages all over the world. If telling the TRUTH is an ATTACK, then fine, I "attacked" her. Sue me.

[Caution]

19. wow, and I'm thin-skinned.

Gimme a friggin break. It doesn't look to me like this woman is hiding her background at all. Her extended family may very well be doing that, but she obviously isn't. Why drag her into it at all? There is quite enough material out there to continuously attack those who have actually harmed our country than to waste time getting all worked up over some woman who has the fortune to be born wealthy and uses that fortune to her advantage.

[Stephanie]

24. Listen, I will discuss whatever I wish

This young woman INTENTIONALLY put herself in the public eye with a splashy debut, gowns, photographs, publicity. She is all over the society pages. I didn't put her there. SHE did. And she's there because she is the granddaughter of one president and niece of another. And what are you saying, it's none of my business? THEN SHE SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE NEWSPAPERS. And her wealth is not a result of good fortune. It's a result of theft. Read up on Silverado Savings and Loan. While you're at it look up Prescott Bush's dealings with the Nazis. Yeah, that's some pretty good fortune, I guess. Nice tiara.

[Caution]

26. Wow, relax. I'm not angry with you and i doubt you would care if i was

My point is that this thread is frivolous, low and mean spririted regardless of whether or not you mean it to be. Those who are participating sound like whiny little children who didn't get to grow up and be with the priness/prince they dreamed about.

Again when this woman shows herself to be a rotten person then I'll concern myself with her. In the meantime I'm not going to sink to the level of passing judgement on Chelsea Clinton simply because of her family. There is no difference at all in what the thread is doing.

[Stephanie]

27. You're right.

I would not care if you were.

[Bluebear]

28. I participated, I am hardly a whiny child who wanted to be a prince.

I just find it fantastic that so many in America buy this "down home" brush-clearing just-like-us bullshit that the Bush PR machine puts out...then we rename French fries because France is the bogey man...and here is a tiara-clad Bush coming out in high society in the very nation we are supposed to hate for their truffles.

[MadHound]

34. So I guess that you don't care that a sizable amount of her fortune

Was made with illegal deals cut by her father, and financed by we, the American taxpayer? Don't care that her family's original fortune was made by financing Hitler, and carries the blood of Holocaust victims? Don't care that while the latest tax cuts for the wealthy paid for that gown of hers, while simltaneously throwing hundreds of thousands of US citizens into deep poverty?

Sorry friend, but when her family is drenched in the blood of innocents, when her fortune and position in life has been paid for with illegal deals paid for by US taxpayers, she is, by association guilty. Now if you wish to see us lay off the little dear, tell her to renounce her family and donate her money to the needy. Until then, I think that she is fair game.

[Sanity Claws]

11. A debutante?

I agree that one can't chose one's relatives and that just because that person is related to you doesn't mean he reflects on you. However, this young woman is a fricking debutante! This is elitist bullshit for moneyed families. I look upon her and all other debutantes as frivolous young women with more social ambitions than brains or heart. Sounds like a fricking chip off the old Bush block.

[Caution]

16. So you don't like the wealthy?

OK well might as well chuck out pretty much every federally elected Democrat. Generalizing does nothing for liberalism/progressivism.

I know quite a few VERY wealthy people who are among the kindest people I've ever met. Wealth and privelege does not automatically equal frivolousness, lack of brains or heart. Until such time as this woman shows that she's just as much of a scumbag as her extended family I'll continue to give her the benefit of the doubt (rather, I'll simply ignore her because I couldn't care less about the way she chooses to live her life).

When we engage in crass behavior we become just like the Republican attack machine. I for one won't stoop to that level.

[fasttense]

20. Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Enough Said.

[Caution]

25. Oh really?

I guess those few lucky ones who won the lottery really screwed us over. The kid who sold a million pixels at $1/each and made himself rich in the process was really a thief rather than just a clever young man.

Why be so bitter? I'm not wealthy and I'm perfectly happy not to be. I do not begrudge the wealth of those who worked hard for it and earned it. Are there plenty of wealthy scumbags out there? Sure. Are there proportionally more scumbags of wealth than who live in poverty? Probably. Will I generalize as a result? No. Will I pass judgement on someone simply because she has an opportunity to spend a day with a prince? NO because it doesn't affect me and because she has done absolutely nothing personally to harm me, my country or my family. This woman could be the most liberal person on the planet for all we know but instead we jump all over her because she was born into a family that also contains some pretty nasty people.

[Benhurst]

37. Assuming she's Neil's daughter, her fortune is based on shady activities.

at best, criminal ones at worst.

If you think the Bush Crime Family's activities which are bankrolling this young woman haven't hurt you, your family and your country, you are sadly misinformed.

[Saphire]

32. dont forget grandma's statement............

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them."...

[Stephanie]

33. that statement perfectly exemplifies their attitude

makes me sick

[Sanity Claws]

41. Reread my message

Nowhere did I condemn the wealthy. What I condemned was the absolute waste on frivolities like debutante balls and the pampered debs. Debutante balls are a throw back to a different century. I actually thought they disappeared in the 1960s.
Yes, a lot of dems serving in Congress are wealthy. Isn't it a crying shame that we have created a political system that allows only the rich to get elected? It's not okay that only the rich get represented.

[Nicole]

23. Not all debutantes are frivolous young women

Jackie O was a debutante. She certainly had brains & heart enough to match her social ambitions.

[Sanity Claws]

45. Different era

In her era, socially prominent women made debuts into high society. Women were expected to marry and the debutante balls were to introduce a young woman to men who were eligible, socially. That's just not how things are done these days. In fact, do you know of any debutante balls being held these days? Do you know of anyone talking about a young woman's making her debut in the social world in the 21st Century?

[Nicole]

48. There are still debutante balls

They are held in several major cities every year. It's tradition for many.

I know the one in Ft. Worth, Texas has been going on for almost a 100 years. I think there is another one in Ft. Worth also.

I don't know anyone personally talking about a young woman's debut because I'm not that socially connected. I have seen the pictures in the paper though, if that counts.

[JanMichael]

54. NO! They're trying to be KINGS in a so called DEMOCRACY!

Eat them all.

Fuck psuedo royals and the so call legitament ones as well.

[Stephanie]

58. She drips with jewels & gowns while other peoples kids drip blood for Bush

Her fellow debs actually are royals.


1. Ashley Bush was escorted by Prince Ashley Poniatowski. Miss Bush prefers theatre to politics and wants to become an actress. Ralph Lauren designed her elegant periwinkle blue gown for her.

2. Comtesse Bianca Brandolini d’Adda was escorted by Antoine de Tavernost, and wore a gorgeous black and white Valentino gown. Bianca carries a legendary Italian name, which goes back to the year 700. Her mother, Georgina, is Brazilian, her father is Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny Lucinge and great uncle was Giovanni Agnelli.

3. Princesse Augusta von Preussen was escorted by Rodrigo Olaechea. She wore a Giles Deacon gown and a Mikimoto tiara. Augusta’s sister Beatrice made her debut at the Crillon in 1999.

4. Vicomtesse Dorothée de Jonghe d’Ardoye was escorted by Antoine Woitrin. The Vicomtesse who is from Belgium chose a cocoa colored gown by Natan, the designer to the Belgian Royal family for her big night.

5. Yuki Mori was escorted by her brother by Ben Mori. She is the granddaughter of the Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori, who had her own Haute Couture house in Paris until last year. Her older sister Izumi made her debut in 2004 and was also escorted by her brother Ben. Yuki came from Los Angeles with a gown by Monique Lhuillier packed in her bags. Personally I wish she had worn a vintage gown by her grandmother whose clothes are an important part of fashion history.

6. Rainsford Qualley was escorted by Gabriel Deletaille. She wore a wore a black lace illusion dress by Jean Paul Gaultier. Rainsford is the daughter of the actress Andie MacDowell, who also wore Gaultier and carried a professional size camera to photograph her daughter. Rainey lives with her family in North Carolina and hopes to become a professional dancer. This quality demonstrated real presence on the Crillon’s marble floors

7. Molly Flattery was escorted by Greg Young. She is the granddaughter of Steve McQueen and his first wife Neile Adams. Molly made her debut in Dior Haute Couture. Molly carried herself with great grace.

8. Maria Juncadella-Hohenlohe was escorted by Christian Juncadella-Hohenlohe. She is Spanish and lives in Madrid with her mother, Princess Cristina Hohenlohe. Maria’s late great-uncle, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe founded the Marbella Club and was the father of Princess Arianna von Hohenlohe who lives in New York and is married to Dixon Boardman. Maria chose a bottle green gown by Ungaro Haute Couture.

9. Sofia Barclay was escorted by Sebastian Donnelly. She follows in the footsteps of her sister Jenna who made her debut at the Crillon last year. Sofia is the daughter of Aidan and Ferzana Barclay and the granddaughter of Sir David Barclay. She wore a dress by her favorite designer Elie Saab.

10. Laetitia Marie de Moustier was escorted by Louis de Chaudenay. She wore Gerald Watelet. The Moustiers are from France and trace their lineage back to the Crusades. They live in Rio de Janeiro, but Laetitia chose to make her debut on the soil of her ancestors.

11. Natapree Pichaironarongsongkram was escorted by Nicolas St. Bris. She is the first “new deb” from Thailand and wore a gown by Dominique Sirop and a simple strand of perfect pearls by Mikimoto.
12. Quitterie de Rivoyre was escorted by Paul-Mederic de Rivoyre. She chose a gown by Stephane Saunier Haute Couture.

13. Salima Mangalji was escorted by Felipe Olaechea. She is from Texas and wore a gown by Zac Posen.

14. Marie de Menthon (who is a student at Hypokhagne) was escorted Ludovic des Yons de Feuchin. She loves fashion and the designs of Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel Haute Couture. She wore the evening’s best dress, a pink gown by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel Houte Couture, the very one that stunned and delighted the critics when it appeared on the runway last season.

15. Camille de Dampierre was escorted Alexander Tsavliris. She is the fourth of the debs to follow in her sisters’ footsteps. Laurence de Dampierre came out in 1999. Camille sports an aristocratic Norman name, dating back to the 14th century. She chose Versace and it was without question the raciest and most talked about dress at the ball that was slashed as high and cut as low as the law allows. She looked like a Hollywood’s glamour girl, ready for the red carpet and the big screen. Time will tell.

16. Laoura Lalaounis-Macropoulou was escorted by Paul du Fraysseix. Her grandfather, Ilias Lalaounis is the legendary jeweler. Laoura studies in England, but had her fittings in Paris, at Givenchy, her favorite designer.

17. Nadine Ghosn was escorted by Jacques-Louis de La Beraudiere and has just returned from Japan. She was dressed by Didier Ludot in a black, white and brown dress by Jacques Heim vintage Haute Couture 1950.

18. Yasmin Kerr was escorted by Louis Delafon. She is the child of rock royalty. Her father Jim Kerr is the lead singer of the group “Simple Minds” and her mother Chrissie Hynde is a member of the “Pretenders”. Yasmin wants to be an actress. Her dramatic evening gown was by Vivienne Westwood.

19. Theodora Warre was escorted by George Northcott and is classic British rose. She wore a gown by Neil Cunningham with long white gloves.

20. Philippine Hubin was escorted by Edmond de Fels. She chose a dress by Franck Sorbier Haute Couture and a tiara by Mikimoto.

21. Mathilde Katsura Kanno was escorted by Nathaniel Eckovich. She is the daughter of the renowned pianist, Jun Kanno and his French wife. She wore a red gown designed by Stephane Rolland for Jean-Louis Scherrer Haute Couture.

22. Ginevra Doria was escorted by Ambrogio Doria. She wore a pink confection by Christian Lacroix HC. Miss Doria is descended from one of Genoa’s oldest families. One of her ancestors was Andréa Doria, an admiral and advisor to Charles V of Spain.

23. Michaela Raikes was escorted by Prince Dimitris Soutzo. Michaela chose Ralph Rucci. After her debut she will travel to India to do volunteer work in an orphanage. Bravo Michaela who sets a perfect example for young ladies of privilege who are committed to helping those less fortunate than they are.

[bluestateguy]

6. This nation is at war

During WWII (since neo-cons love the WWII analogies) debutante balls stopped. Such opulence is inappropriate during a time of war. Those girls should be out collecting aluminum cans for the war effort instead.

[soothsayer]

7. See, she didn't forget Poland...!

[NYCGirl]

8. Eeek! If Lauren Bush's "beau" is named David Lauren — and they marry —

her name will be LAUREN LAUREN!!

[Sequoia]

14. Marsha, Marsha

[shanti]

44. and ashley bush's beau

is named....prince ASHLEY! and lest we forget, paris hilton and her ex-fiancee PARIS.

:wtf:

[Poiuyt]

49. I was thinking the same thing!

I remember Coutessa Brewer on MSNBC talking about the Paris Hilton thing. She said that she wouldn't want to marry a guy named Countessa.

And I would never go out with a girl named Poiuyt! :)

[lpbk2713]

10. Isn't that sort of thing rather archaic?

Seems to be vestigious of an aristocratic society. Let the BFEE and their friends hold on to their parallel universe. They never had a good grasp of the real world anyhow.

[Stockholm]

12. I am saving this picture for future discussions on

monarchy vs. republic.

[Stephanie]

18. go to the site - there are tons more

Also the names of all the princesses and countesses who debuted with her.

[leftofthedial]

17. well, they are inbred, just like "royalty"

why do you hate Murka?

[elehhhhna]

21. Here's another gal JUST LIKE HER:

Wafa Bin Laden, Niece of GW's good pal OBL.

[leftchick]

22. Social Safari?? Here are the Debs....

:puke:

[Caution]

29. And another!

http://www.usa-morocco.org/M6visitjune21st2000.htm

here's nothing like a handsome bachelor king to bring out a crowd.

More than 435 guests attended last night's state dinner for King Mohammed VI of Morocco, making it the largest state dinner in White House history. For a democracy, Americans sure go overboard for royalty.

snip

Chelsea Clinton, wearing a long lavender gown, slipped downstairs to greet friends near the end of the receiving line.

[Stephanie]

31. You're being deliberately dense.

That is not a debutante ball for the children of the wealthy and powerful and royal.

[Caution]

36. Yep I am being deliberately dense

That's what it is called when one makes unfounded assumptions about the moral character of other people based upon a few pictures, a silly event and their family.

Glad you caught my point.

I'll leave the incredible crassness of this thread to those who want to play in it.

[Catherine Vincent]

43. Your relentless protection of this chick is interesting.

You like her don't you? :D

[brook]

57. 'silly event'?

Hell.

A debutante ball is and has always been a cattle auction. Some of us 'disappointed' our parents as far back as the 50's by refusing to take part in one. The other 50% of the deal is that the parents get to preen, crow and (they hope) climb another rung.

[undeterred]

30. I didn't know a Prince could have a name like Poniatowski.

:rofl:

[Demoiselle]

50. I didn't know a prince could have a name like Ashley!

Could that be a misprint? What are the odds of an American girl and a Polish/Russian/ whatever the hell he is having the same name. Especially if the name is Ashley?
Good grief, have we all traveled back to Twelve Oaks? (A little Gone With the Wind humor there for y'all.)

[MissB]

35. She is beautiful.

:shrug:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

39. Yeah, she's beautiful . . .

. . . but I'm sick of the Bushes too. Really, really, sick of that rotten, corrupt bunch of closet Nazis.

And maybe she's an exception. Or not.

Keep posting 'em, Stephanie.

[No Exit]

52. Many very lethal animals are beautiful...

and some specimens of the Bush animal are no exception.

But don't try to make a pet out of one.

[KittyWampus]

38. Neil Bush Left Sharon & Her Kids With Very Little. Didn't Even Give

them the home they were living in.

Sharon & her kids had to move to NY, I've read about the break up. They had to leave Texas because the Bush crime family would make their displeasure at the ex-wife and children known to the social circle & neighbors.

Ma Bush and Neil treated Sharon and the kids like shit. I don't think Sharon or the kids are "wealthy", just connected.

[Deja Q]

40. He looks sad and distant. She has a nice smile, but is it a practiced one?

[Skidmore]

42. Lauren's son looks like he's about 12 years old.

[blindpig]

46. Fuck the rich and their affectations.

It is to maintain this sort of nonsense that those bastards pillage the planet. Wanna-be aristocrats, feh. One day...............

[chaplainM]

47. Although I believe in free speech...

...I do object to the use of the term, "periwinkle" in polite conversation.

[No Exit]

51. "This message brought to you by the Museum of Genetic Mistakes"

[JI7]

53. is she the one whose Dad has herpes ?

[robbedvoter]

55. Ashley and Ashley? Awww.....

[Ksec]

56. This ranks her way up there with Paris Hilton

Thats really up there.....