One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history A new king was crowned audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinsky's gravity-defying leaps The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next - the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls But perfection was over-reaching itself What the protagonists could not have known is that they were playing out the backdrop to WWI in a few years time the world, let alone England, would never be the same again