Palm Beach Society: Students come up with aces at meeting with two queens
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Leave it to Emilia Fanjul to come up with a party guest that makes everybody else's VIP list look like a bowling team.
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When she invited Everglades Preparatory Academy students Dayanara Fonseca, Jocelyn Sanchez, Crystal Reyes and Paulina Tello, along with Principal Linda Johnson-Earsley and Assistant Principal Julie Stewart, to a reception aboard the Spanish Naval training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano in Miami, she got them face time with Queen Sofia of Spain.
Because, you know, it takes a queen to get a queen.
The group also met Miami Mayor Francis Suarez at the reception aboard the Tall Ship, which was in Miami as part of its voyage to marking the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation.
Queen Sofia, like her friend ''Queen'' Emilia, was generous with her time.
“They had quite a bit of her time,” Johnson-Earsley said about La Reina Emerita. “There were people in line waiting to speak with the Queen, and she was not rushing at all.”
“I was so pleased to be able to facilitate the field trip to Miami to meet Queen Sofia and tour the Spanish naval ship,” said Fanjul. “I was delighted by the reaction of the students; they had a wonderful time."
A reception, a ship, young sailors, a queen and a day in Miami. What's not to like?
Miami nice?
So, Ken Griffin paints the exit door green as leaves crime-ridden Chicago and sets up his mother in a nice oceanfront Palm Beach pile.
Good for him. It's his money; he can spend it where he wants. And we love a boy who takes care of his mother.
According to reports, it wasn't COVID that spurred him to leave the Big Windy; it was the crime. So he's moving to Miami.
Um, Miami? To escape crime?
That's like moving to Milwaukee to escape beer.
Resort report
Wilbur and Hilary Ross, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Baroness Milly de Cabrol, Kimberly and Steve Rockefeller, Sharon Bush, and publicist R. Couri Hay were among the 140 guests at the wedding of Randy Hearst Harris and Paula Porubcanova. The bridegroom is the great-grandson of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst and the son of Anne Hearst McInerney ... Regina and Rainer Greeven, Katy and Greg Carey, Cricket Burns, Veronica Atkins, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Ashley Copeland and Jessica Mezzacappa at the Southampton Art Center's ''A Garden Soiree'' cocktail party ... co-chairs Linda Fraser and Barbara Glatt, Annette Geddes, Sheila Fuchs, Lisa Arnold, Susan Mortimer, and Cindy Willis at the Southampton Garden Club's annual flower show luncheon ... Brian Brady, Debbie Bancroft, Earl Crittenden, Cricket Burns, Oscar Mandes, Jeff Pfeifle and David Granville at a cocktail party to benefit the Human Rights Campaign of Greater New York ... Palm Beach's Via Coquina has opened a summer outpost in the Hamptons.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Column: Royals, revelers, and rich guys shake up the social scene
