Swimming at the Ritz
About Myself
Name: Pamela Beryl Churchill Hayward Harriman, née Digby
Gender: Female
Age: Never discussed
Birthday: March 20th
Status: Widow
Hometown: Minterne Magna, Dorset, U. K.
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education: None
School: University of Life
Major: Manners and Good Taste
Minor: Home Economics
Occupation: U. S. Ambassador to France, 1993 - 1997;
Socialite
MY CONTACT
Work: U.S. Embassy, Paris
Home: Hôtel Ritz, Paris; and
Hôtel Pontalba, Paris
Instant Messaging: None
Groups: U. S. Democratic Party
MY FAVORITES
Books: VERSAILLES by Gerard Van de Kemp; THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR: THE SECRET LIFE; Hammacher-Schlemmer mail order catalog
Writers: Winston Churchill, Jacqueline Susanne, Fannie Farmer
Quote: “Face to face is better than fax to fax!”
“I am very territorial. If you belong to me, YOU BELONG TO ME. No straying allowed!”
“Wealth is very incestuous. We all marry cousins and friends’ ex-wives and ex-husbands to ‘keep it in the family.’”
Food: Tea sandwiches, salmon or cucumber, thinly sliced. Take out from Maxim’s
Travel Desinations: Greece, Italy, France, preferably anyplace reachable only by private yacht
“Powerful men are always
at the mercy of the right woman”
You are cordially invited
to the sale of a lifetime
Paris, 1995. Pamela Churchill Harriman, U. S. Ambassador to France, is alone in a suite at the Hôtel Ritz, except for Pietro her Italian hotel valet. Daughter-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, adventuress, socialite, the maker of a U.S. President and considered to be the most famous courtesan of the twentieth century, Pamela faces her most challenging crisis.
SWIMMING AT THE RITZ
a new play by
“impressive”
“a bit of genius”
“very amusing entertaining... frothy fun...”
“...this tale of love, sex, money, glamour...and survival”
“An utterly amazing character”
