A massive poster of Sabrina Ho welcomed guests to her wonderfully crazy birthday celebration on the Cafe Royal on Monday 12th September, hot for 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 through the very first moment when a whole tray of champagne flew an excellent source of air to a rousing cheer. Pink champagne was served throughout. A few of Sabrina’s male friends missed the whiskey but said the girls were more than enough. They included over 40 of Sabrina’s British boarding school classmates who studied with her at Queen Margaret’s – and danced on the table tops with her after the cake arrived. Along with what a cake! Sabrina had to climb it – a minimum of a metre tall, in pink and white with gold roses – to blow out the golden candles. The Oscar Wilde room was packed with her friends and their friends ’till the end – 150 were invited and 230 appeared.
Special guests included Ella Mountbatten: she and her sister Alexandra became all-around Sabrina Ho and her sister Alice once they arrived on the scene 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. Greater hundred years’ ago the Keswick’s were brilliant entrepreneurs taking China by storm: now it’s the turn of 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 a celebration for many generations: Sabrina closed the dancing in a final waltz with Hon Benedict Kingsmill. Sabrina had insisted on no birthday gifts but sometimes not resist Heineken magnate Michel de Carvalho’s offer of his personal iPhone case because they dined on the after party with Ms Aida Aliyeva and also the Keswick’s.
Music was created by DJ and composer The actual Tuesday Weld (aka Stephen Coates) who also MC’d the night time. It’s been postulated if philosopher Alain de Botton were ever to sign up a band, Stephen’s could be the one. The birthday song was played by pianist Brigitte Subkov through the Royal College of Music: Sabrina insisted for the English version only, like a celebration of not just her birthday, but her love of London, her life here and her many close friendships in the West. However the congratulations originated all around the globe. Top Chinese actress Angela Baby and Paris Hilton sent special videos wishing Sabrina every success and happiness.
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