Thirty-four photos of posh British people having some jolly good old fun on the Thames. With bonus buff rowers.
The Henley Royal Regatta remains a summer social staple for upper class Brits. Any excuse to put on a big hat and eat egg-and-cress sandwiches, after all.
Often loftily described as "the last bastion of class," the Regatta consists of five days of boat races rowed up and down the Thames River. It's an annual event ever-marked on the calendars of posh British folk from West London to those parts of London that aren't technically West but you have to call it West because you just can't live anywhere else in London these days, really you can't. (The landed gentry also pop into town for the weekend.)
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It's a nonstop cavalcade of prepsters' finery. Chambermaids and/or butlers will have been sacked for failing to press guests' dress slacks just right.
THERE ARE DECK CHAIRS. DECK CHAIRS.
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And more striped blazers than you'd ever thought possible.
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This eye-catching pink and white stripe denotes students at the Abingdon School, a public all-boys school in Oxfordshire.
(In England, public schools are the equivalent of über-pricy American private schools.)
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