{"id":1371,"date":"2026-06-12T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:55:20","slug":"special-garden-party-in-honour-of-her-late-majesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londonpressclub.co.uk\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Special Garden Party in honour of her late Majesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The London Press Club held a special summer garden party this week in College Gardens, within the grounds of Westminster Abbey. The garden, said to be the oldest cultivated in England, dates back some nine hundred years to when it served as the monks\u2019 kitchen and physic garden.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\">The party marked one hundred years since the birth of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Joint Deputy Chairmen\u00a0<strong>Robert Jobson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Ray Massey<\/strong>\u00a0hosted alongside Chairman\u00a0<strong>Doug Wills<\/strong>, who thanked both for their work in putting the day together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095235\/e6180025-b9a5-4e4d-8571-e8fd9e0dd774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095235\/e6180025-b9a5-4e4d-8571-e8fd9e0dd774.jpg 640w, https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095235\/e6180025-b9a5-4e4d-8571-e8fd9e0dd774-480x361.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The club\u2019s longstanding sponsors,\u00a0<\/span><strong>St James\u2019s House<\/strong>, supported the event.\u00a0<strong>Richard Freed<\/strong>, who heads the 25-year-old publishing company, and his colleague\u00a0<strong>Ludovica<\/strong>\u00a0oversaw the arrangements. The firm also sponsors the club\u2019s annual Awards each autumn at Stationers\u2019 Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\">Classical singer\u00a0<strong>Beatrice Alexander<\/strong>\u00a0performed \u201cPraise, My Soul, the King of Heaven,\u201d the hymn sung at the Queen\u2019s wedding in 1947 and again at her State Funeral in 2022. She later led the marquee in \u201cJerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\"><strong>Dickie Arbiter<\/strong>, the Queen\u2019s former press secretary, and\u00a0<strong>Ailsa Anderson<\/strong>, who held the role of Press Secretary to the Queen, were among those introduced during the afternoon. Biographer\u00a0<strong>Robert Hardman<\/strong>\u00a0spoke about his new book on Elizabeth II and the soft power diplomacy of the monarchy, reflecting on his meetings with US President Donald Trump in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago while writing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1373\" src=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095324\/51e28e02-4fe9-4f4d-acac-2f1702a5d4d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095324\/51e28e02-4fe9-4f4d-acac-2f1702a5d4d4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/londonpressclub1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/2026\/06\/12095324\/51e28e02-4fe9-4f4d-acac-2f1702a5d4d4-480x361.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The gathering drew many familiar Fleet Street names:\u00a0<\/span><strong>Paul Henderson<\/strong>, former Daily Mirror and Mail executive,\u00a0<strong>Shekhar Bhatia<\/strong>, of the old Evening Standard and Mail Online; Sky\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Martin Brunt<\/strong>;\u00a0<strong>John Twomey<\/strong>\u00a0of the Daily Express; Daily Mail writers\u00a0<strong>Stephen Wright<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Richard Kay<\/strong>;\u00a0<strong>Rebecca English<\/strong>\u00a0also attended along Sun and Daily Mirror and Times royal editors\u00a0<strong>Matt Wilkinson<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Russell Myers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Kate Mansey;<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Stuart Higgins<\/strong>, former editor of The Sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_mcePastedContent\">A toast was raised to His Majesty The King and to the late Queen Elizabeth II, in whose honour the company had gathered, in the shadow of the Abbey where the Queen was married, crowned and mourned at her state funeral.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London Press Club held a special summer garden party this week in College Gardens, within the grounds of Westminster Abbey. 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