With Fonteyn officially Guest Artist, Svetlana Beriosova was the Empress of the Royal Ballet and Antoinette Sibley the Crown Princess.
Beriosova was truly imperial - the last in the line of the majestic Ballet Russes style dancers of the old tradition.
She was magnificent in everything she did, but my most enduring memory of her is the moment of wide-eyed wonderment when, as Cinderella, she found the glass slipper in her ragged skirt in the kitchen scene after the ball. No one else ever captured this magic moment as movingly.
Persephone, Les Biches, Lady Elgar and Lady and the Fool were other roles in which she was magical.
Terry