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Scoop: In Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, Brentwood, Hancock Park and other tony southern California enclaves, the big news is that Beatrice Niven, Annette de la Renta's stunning older daughter, who just divorced officially and amicably from dashing David Niven Jr., the actor's son, will marry California real estate lawyer David Phelps, who some say is almost as stunning as she is. The wedding will take place in the fall in New York, where Beatrice's mother, her father, Sam Reed and her stepfather, Oscar de la Renta, all live, as if you didn't know.
Beatrice has three beautiful children and David Phelps has a couple of beautiful ones of his own. They are said to all meld beautifully. Beatrice just bought a new house in Hancock Park, where they will all live together surrounded by numerous cats and dogs. Beatrice is an avid animal lover and David Phelps is said to be a close runner-up. They love all God's creatures, great and small, and Beatrice was reported to be almost inconsolable when that whale washed up on a California beach, the dear girl.
Meanwhile, another dashing Niven brother, Jamie, a very big man at Sotheby's and a golden-throated (well, almost) auctioneer at many a social extravaganza, is getting married to attractive Lee Auchincloss on Oct. 22 at a quiet family wedding at the New York house of Wendy and Henry Breck, who introduced them. On the evening of the wedding they will celebrate with a big party at Sotheby's where, repeat, Jamie is a very big man.
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More Southern Californiana: Ambassador Lee Annenberg, whose magnificent Palm Springs house has been, and is, a gathering spot of the high and mighty in politics, diplomacy and society and who served as chief of protocol under President Reagan (her late husband, Walter, was President Reagan's ambassador to Great Britain), is being honored on Oct. 11 by the United Nations Association of the USA at its Global Leadership Dinner for the important role she has played leading the Annenberg Foundation, which endows the arts and culture, education and health. Four former U.S. presidents are the honorary chairmen of the evening — Ford, Carter, Bush and Clinton — and the co-chairmen are such worthies as Vartan Gregorian, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder and John Whitehead. Lee's friends from all over are converging at the U.N., led by such as Betsy Bloomingdale from California and Buffy Cafritz from Washington.
Beatrice has three beautiful children and David Phelps has a couple of beautiful ones of his own. They are said to all meld beautifully. Beatrice just bought a new house in Hancock Park, where they will all live together surrounded by numerous cats and dogs. Beatrice is an avid animal lover and David Phelps is said to be a close runner-up. They love all God's creatures, great and small, and Beatrice was reported to be almost inconsolable when that whale washed up on a California beach, the dear girl.
Meanwhile, another dashing Niven brother, Jamie, a very big man at Sotheby's and a golden-throated (well, almost) auctioneer at many a social extravaganza, is getting married to attractive Lee Auchincloss on Oct. 22 at a quiet family wedding at the New York house of Wendy and Henry Breck, who introduced them. On the evening of the wedding they will celebrate with a big party at Sotheby's where, repeat, Jamie is a very big man.
More Southern Californiana: Ambassador Lee Annenberg, whose magnificent Palm Springs house has been, and is, a gathering spot of the high and mighty in politics, diplomacy and society and who served as chief of protocol under President Reagan (her late husband, Walter, was President Reagan's ambassador to Great Britain), is being honored on Oct. 11 by the United Nations Association of the USA at its Global Leadership Dinner for the important role she has played leading the Annenberg Foundation, which endows the arts and culture, education and health. Four former U.S. presidents are the honorary chairmen of the evening — Ford, Carter, Bush and Clinton — and the co-chairmen are such worthies as Vartan Gregorian, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder and John Whitehead. Lee's friends from all over are converging at the U.N., led by such as Betsy Bloomingdale from California and Buffy Cafritz from Washington.
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