A Prince Among Stones (32 page)

Guests at the White Ball we held in Holland Villas Road in July
1969
: Cecil Beaton and HRH Princess Margaret with (
seated
) Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire; Peter Sellers and Miranda Quarry; Marianne Faithfull; Mick Jagger with Cecil Beaton and Marianne; Christopher Gibbs and Lindy Dufferin.

Hosting the White Ball: Josephine in a lace trouser suit, my white patent leather shoes garnished with gold buckles. The décor for the party was masterminded by David Mlinaric.

Image Section 2

5
July
1969
, the Rolling Stones perform at a free concert in Hyde Park. Estimates of the audience ranged from a quarter of a million upwards. Mick opened the Stones’ set with a tribute to Brian Jones, who had died on the night of our White Ball: Mick wore the same milkmaid’s smock he had worn then.

Mick and Josephine during our stay at Warwick Castle in December
1969
with Lord and Lady Brooke.

Dominique Tarlé’s photograph of Keith and Anita Pallenberg, with Gram and Gretchen Parsons, in Nellcôte, the villa they rented in the South of France during the
1971
recordings for
Exile On Main Street
.

Josephine en route to Mick and Bianca’s wedding in St Tropez in May
1971
; Stephen Stills is in the back seat.

From left to right
: Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, Earl McGrath, myself, Mica Ertegun and David Geffen, Los Angeles,
1972
.

Another increasingly rare moment of relaxation: with Josephine on a trip to Monchique, Portugal,
1972
.

Patrick Lichfield’s portrait of the Mustique regulars: HRH Princess Margaret reclining on the chaise longue, Colin Tennant brandishing a white cane. Josephine and I are sitting front left.

With Keith, doubtless debating the tax situation or overseas residency.

Backstage on the Tour of the Americas, in Jacksonville, Florida,
2
August
1975
; Mick onstage during that show.