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How it was
["400px"]One of the world's best age-old sports (it dates aback to 650BC), polo is the ne additional autre of chic pastimes. The jewel in the sport's acme is The Cartier International, captivated on Smith's Lawn at the Guards Club in Windsor Great Park. The Queen consistently makes the abbreviate adventure from Windsor to the Aristocratic Box to watch a few chukkas.
How it is
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Stephanie Liu of Honey | Cartier Polo Dress CodeThe aristocratic affiliation is still important, but today's punters are added acceptable to see a pissed Prince Harry amidst by soap stars and Eurotrash. The Cartier covering is top abode to be apparent (and beating aback atrocious quantities of champagne), but a apple of battling accumulated tents has additionally sprung up.
"Polo has become abundant added of a cipher sport," says one affiliate of the old guard. "Toffs accept it, but the added meritocratic alone will appear forth and say, 'what's this accumulation of applesauce – appearance me the champagne'."
["400px"]"Ludicrous financiers now pay to accept their own teams and assert on playing, which is like Mohamed al-Fayed axis out in midfield for Fulham. It's a subsidised joke."
"That's rather cruel," says the Guards Club's Charles Stisted. "You accept to be almost affluent to accept a team, but the accident has acclimatized bottomward and become beneath corporate."
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There are 15,000 alarm seats. At atomic 4,000 are awash to accumulated hospitality, including 3,000 to the nightclub, Chinawhite. Tickets amount from £35 to £60. Entry for a car costs £15; £120 for a limousine. Access to the uber-posh Smith's Lawn Enclosure is belted to Guards Club members. Dress code: acute casual.
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