Eat Your Heart Out, Elton ; He Blew Pounds 1/2 Billion On Jewelled Costumes, Pink Poodles and a Car with Perfumed Exhaust. But Henry Paget Was No Rock Prima Donna. A New Stage Show Brings to Life the Most Eccentric English Aristocrat Ever

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WITH his flowing peacock robes and jewelled highlights in his long, silky hair, Henry Cyril Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, adored attention.

Dressed in outlandish clothes, his willowy figure could be spotted walking along fashionable Piccadilly in central London with a snow white, pink-ribboned poodle under his arm. And he was so rich and self-indulgent that he had his motor cars modified to spout exhaust gases perfumed with patchouli and l'eau d'Espagne.

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Eat Your Heart Out, Elton ; He Blew Pounds 1/2 Billion On Jewelled Costumes, Pink Poodles and a Car with Perfumed Exhaust. But Henry Paget Was No Rock Prima Donna. A New Stage Show Brings to Life the Most Eccentric English Aristocrat Ever

Most outrageous of all, he loved to perform sinuous, sexy, snake- like dances in front of EAT astonished audiences around Europe, earning him the sobriquet, the Dancing Marquess.

Now his extraordinary life is the subject of a dance extravaganza, called Gloria Days, to be premiered at the end of the month before going on national tour. What emerges is the tale of an aristocrat whose sheer flamboyance, extravagance and love of the limelight made him not

YOUR HEA only the most colourful figure of his age, but of any era a man who makes Elton John look the height of modesty and restraint.

In just a few years,...

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