An enormous poster of Sabrina Ho welcomed guests to her wonderfully crazy birthday celebration in the Cafe Royal on Monday 12th September, hot about the heels of Saturday night’s revels at Queen Charlotte’s Ball, where she’d been escorted by Archduke Alexander of Austria. The party ran on high octane from the very first moment every time a whole tray of champagne flew an excellent source of the air into a rousing cheer. Pink champagne was served throughout. Some of Sabrina’s male friends missed the whiskey but said the girls were plenty of. They included a lot more than 40 of Sabrina’s British boarding school classmates who studied along with her at Queen Margaret’s – and danced up for grabs tops along with her as soon as the cake arrived. And just what a cake! Sabrina was required to climb it – at least a metre tall, in pink and white with gold roses – to fly out the golden candles. The Oscar Wilde room was packed with her friends in addition to their friends ’till the end – 150 were invited and 230 arrived.
Special guests included Ella Mountbatten: she and her sister Alexandra became near Sabrina Ho and her own sister Alice whenever they became available as debutantes. Spencer Matthews was arm in arm with Sabrina snapping selfies. Sir Henry and Lady Keswick came as old friends of Sabrina’s family. More than a hundred years’ ago the Keswick’s were brilliant entrepreneurs taking China by storm: now it’s the turn from the Ho family in Europe. Others going to celebrate with Sabrina were Lord and Lady Reay, Baroness Denise Kingsmill, Sir Benjamin Slade, Ms Wendy Yu, and Mr and Mrs Dimitri Chandris. This was an event for those generations: Sabrina closed the dancing in a final waltz with Hon Benedict Kingsmill. Sabrina had insisted on no birthday gifts but could not resist Heineken magnate Michel de Carvalho’s offer of his personal iPhone case as they dined in the after party with Ms Aida Aliyeva as well as the Keswick’s.
Music was created by DJ and composer The Real Tuesday Weld (aka Stephen Coates) who also MC’d the night. It’s been postulated that when philosopher Alain de Botton were ever to participate a band, Stephen’s will be the one. The birthday song was played by pianist Brigitte Subkov from the Royal College of Music: Sabrina insisted about the English version only, being a celebration of not only her birthday, but her passion for London, her life here and her many close friendships in the western world. But the congratulations came from all over the world. Top Chinese actress Angela Baby and Paris Hilton sent special videos wishing Sabrina every success and happiness.
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