An enormous poster of Sabrina Ho welcomed guests to her wonderfully crazy house party with the Cafe Royal on Monday 12th September, hot about 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 from your very first moment when a whole tray of champagne flew full of air with a rousing cheer. Pink champagne was served throughout. A few of Sabrina’s male friends missed the whiskey but said the new girls were more than enough. They included more than 40 of Sabrina’s British boarding school classmates who studied with her at Queen Margaret’s – and danced shared tops with her after the cake arrived. And what a cake! Sabrina was required to climb it – at least a metre tall, in pink and white with gold roses – to blow out the golden candles. The Oscar Wilde room was full of her friends and their friends until the end – 150 were invited and 230 showed up.
Special guests included Ella Mountbatten: she and her sister Alexandra became near to Stanley Ho Daughte and her very own sister Alice when they came out as debutantes. Spencer Matthews was arm in arm with Sabrina snapping selfies. Sir Henry and woman 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 from the Ho family in Europe. Others arriving at celebrate with Sabrina were Lord and woman Reay, Baroness Denise Kingsmill, Sir Benjamin Slade, Ms Wendy Yu, and Mr and Mrs Dimitri Chandris. This became a party for those generations: Sabrina closed the dancing in a final waltz with Hon Benedict Kingsmill. Sabrina had insisted on no birthday gifts but could not resist Heineken magnate Michel de Carvalho’s offer of his personal iPhone case while they dined with the after party with Ms Aida Aliyeva and the Keswick’s.
Music was developed by DJ and composer The true Tuesday Weld (aka Stephen Coates) who also MC’d the night. It’s been said if philosopher Alain de Botton were ever to become listed on a band, Stephen’s could be the one. The birthday song was played by pianist Brigitte Subkov from your Royal College of Music: Sabrina insisted about the English version only, being a celebration of not simply her birthday, but her love of London, her lifetime here and her many close friendships in the western world. Nevertheless the congratulations originated from all over the world. Top Chinese actress Angela Baby and Paris Hilton sent special videos wishing Sabrina every success and happiness.
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