Richmond offered her own dressing advice: “Don’t wear a dress that’s too big, girls, because it will slip down and everything is going to fall out — which I’ve been told isn’t the done thing at Ascot.” Less boobage in Fiona Howden’s box, then, where she was joined by insurance broker husband David, fresh from receiving his CBE, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh: perhaps the Duchess will attend Wilderness Festival on their Cornbury estate this August. Meanwhile, Penny Lancaster came with her and Rod’s son Alastair, who was the heart-throb of day one, frankly.
