INDIAN SWING
PHOTOS: KEOMA ZEC
CHARLOTTE METCALF meets the man who has brought together the world’s most rich and powerful through the love of horses
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ABOVE: Abhimanyu Pathak at British Polo Day India 2015 BELOW: His Highness The Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodhpur and Imelda de Alba at British Polo Day India 2015
group of us is gathered on a jasmine-swathed verandah that runs along one wing of the magnificent Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur. Cocktails, champagne and fragrant spiced canapés circulate as we mingle and talk to our host, His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodhpur. As guests of British Polo Day, the Maharaja has invited us into his private apartment and most of us are anyway staying at the Palace, a Taj hotel just voted, that very day, as the best in the entire world by Trip Advisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards. It’s the start of an evening that moves on into the palace gardens with fireworks, a fashion show by British designer Helen Bromovsky with Amrapali Jewels and dinner for 200 served under the trees. September 2016 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | 83
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