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oads for the wedding of Lucien Montagu-Scott at St Mary’s, Chipping Norton. Naturally, the<br />
Glencoras were out in full force along with the Devonshires, the Buccleuches, and a smattering of<br />
Rothschilds and Rochambords from both sides of the channel. Many a girl mourned that Lucien aka<br />
#TallDrinkofWater was off the market, but no one could fault the bride, Colette Bing, whose porcelaindoll<br />
complexion and ravishing smile could warm all the frigid chapels in the Home Counties put together.<br />
Wandi couldn’t believe her eyes as she stared at the picture of the couple again. There<br />
was no way the bride in the simple, almost monastic high-necked wedding gown was the<br />
same Colette Bing she had seen splashed over all of Asia’s tabloids. What happened to the<br />
signature swath of black eyeliner and her matador-red lipstick? This girl’s face bore no<br />
evident traces of makeup, her lips ghostly pale. Where was the spectacular gold<br />
Giambattista Valli dress that she had commissioned for her wedding? And most<br />
important, why wasn’t she wearing some glittering tiara?<br />
Wandi dug into her Mark Cross white python handbag for her phone, quickly snapped a<br />
photo of the page, and sent it via WhatsApp to Georgina Ting, who was at that very<br />
moment lounging poolside at the American Club in Singapore, not watching her daughter<br />
splash around in the deep end of the pool.<br />
WANDI MEGGAHARTO WIDJAWA: Check this out!!!<br />
GEORGINA TING: Badly dressed Brits?<br />
WMW: No, check out the bride!!!!<br />
GT: OMFG!!! Where did you find this???<br />
WMW: British Tattle!<br />
GT: Colette’s wedding was in BRITISH TATTLE?!? Wow, she really hit the Holy Grail! Did you send to Kitty?<br />
WMW: No!!! I didn’t want to be the one to upset her.<br />
GT: Good thinking. Messenger always gets blamed. You don’t want to risk losing your spa privileges on her plane.<br />
WMW: At least with me what you see is what you get—if I’m being a bitch, you know it’s because I hate you. Kitty is so<br />
unpredictable! You remember what happened at Giambattista Valli’s atelier in Paris—she was so calm and collected<br />
and then suddenly she attacked Colette’s wedding dress!<br />
GT: Yeah. No wonder she didn’t wear it—they probably couldn’t repair it in time.<br />
WMW: Still, I can’t believe the dress she chose instead. What the hell? She looks like Fräulein Maria at the convent. She’s<br />
unrecognizable! Do you think she had her face rearranged in Seoul or Buenos Aires or London?<br />
GT: I think that’s just how she looks with no makeup. I know that style…she’s going for the posh Brit look now. They all<br />
want to look like freshly exfoliated virgins on their wedding day.<br />
WMW: This guy she married looks like a true blueblood.<br />
GT: I thought he was some science nerd?<br />
WMW: No, lawyer.<br />
GT: Didn’t you google him when we were all in Paris?<br />
WMW: Tatiana did.<br />
GT: Has Tatiana seen this?<br />
WMW: Not yet.<br />
GT: Gimme a sec…<br />
Georgina forwarded the photo on to Tatiana Savarin, and then started doing a bit of<br />
googling on her own. A few moments later, Tatiana, who was holidaying on the island of<br />
Mustique, answered back.<br />
TATIANA SAVARIN: THAT’S who Colette Bing married?!?!
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