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KG Contact information:  \n[https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/rights](https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/verlag/rights)  \nI  \nALTHORP  \nThese are the halcyon days of the English fox hunt. The meet is set for one o’clock. It is twelve now, and onlookers are flocking to Althorp, the slate-grey estate of the fifth Earl Spencer.  \nThe house has its charms. The façade is not one of them. A wayward ancestor of the Spencers had the once cheerful red Tudor house faced with grey bricks and put mock Corinthian columns to the right and left of the entrance. But the March sun is shining, even if it is still wintry cold, and in this light, with the gleaming horses and the riders in their colourful jackets and black top hats out front, the estate looks noble. The grey façade calls for the exuberant colours of a hunt. The bleak landscape demands it. The English winter demands it. The cold months drag on in Britain. Rain, fog, uneventfulness. A fox hunt brings splendour and sensation.  \nChatting, the hunters, including some ladies, ride up and down in front of the building. The horses live up to all expectations. They chew on the bit, stamp and foam and trample the manicured lawns. They are large, noble hunters with shaved manes and precisely trimmed tails. Servants in livery walk between them. They balance glasses on silver trays, port for the gentlemen, sherry for the ladies. Brandy for all. The hunters could not have dressed more carefully if they had been going to an exclusive ball – only here it is the ladies who wear black. At most, their riding dresses are dark blue or green. Without exception the gentlemen wear pink. Of course their jackets are not actually pink. They are bright red, as befits a hunting jacket. But you are not allowed to say that. In England you cannot say ‘He rides in red’. Never, ever, under any circumstances. You can’t even think‘red’ if you don’t want to be considered uncouth.  \nOn an unofficial hunt day like the one Lord Spencer has arranged at short notice as master of the Pytchley pack, it is not usual to wear pink, but since the Empress of Austria will be riding along, one can hardly turn up in an old tweed jacket.  \nThe Earl has done his utmost not to let the public know of Her Majesty’s participation. She is travelling incognito under one of her many additional, but entirely unusual , titles, that of ‘Countess Hohenembs’. She wishes to be left alone. However, this has not stopped Elisabeth of Austria from bringing her Lord Chamberlain, her lady-in-waiting, her hairstylist, her personal physician, her stud master and her English riding instructor to Althorp. She is also accompanied by seven cavaliers from home – all of them excellent horsemen and all of them strikingly handsome.  \nSo it is not that easy to hide the presence of the Empress. Especially as Lord Spencer’s talent for keeping things to himself is rather limited. And now three hundred riders have gathered, and the place is teeming with nosy teachers, women, horse traders, clergymen, peddlers and worse; their dog carts and breaks along with their third-rate horses are blocking the way. A few gawkers have already travelled down from London the day before to be there, with a bit of luck, when supposedly the most beautiful woman in Europe lands in a muddy Pytchley ditch.  \nThat is outside the house.  \nInside the walls of Althorp , in the large entrance hall and the adjoining salon with its walnut staircase, refined society is streaming in and out, to fortify themselves with a bite to eat before the carnage. There is a smell of punch, of smoke and freshly greased leather and also a little of horse, for some of those present have taken it upon themselves to ride their horses over in person. 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