New York Post, Sunday, November 15, 2020
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A former director of com-
munications for the New
York City Department of
Education has been hired
by Prince Harry and Me-
ghan Markle as part of their
press team as they prepare
to unveil their nonprofit.
Toya Holness will help
steer publicity as the couple
announces their new foun-
dation Archewell, accord-
ing to industry newsletter
PR Week. Holness is joinedby Christine Schirmer,
former head of communica-
tions for Pinterest, who will
lead the press team.
Both women are already
based in Los Angeles,
where Harry and Markle
decamped with their 1-year-
old son Archie after step-
ping back from their royal
duties in March.
The foundation’s Web site
launched last month.
Isabel VincentHarry hires p.r. help Prince Charles was show-
ered with social media best
wishes from throughout the
royal family on his 72nd
birthday Saturday — with
the exception of Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle.
The Duke of Sussex did not
publicly wish his dad a happy
birthday, The Sun reported.
But the couple, who
stepped down as “senior”
royals this year, may have
sent private wishes, the re-
port said. Paula Froelich
and Amanda WoodsChuck’s royal 72nd
By IsaBel VIncentWhen New Yorker John
Clark read in The Post
last month that the Wal-
dorf Astoria hotel was
conducting a landmark
auction of furniture and
curiosities, he was deter-
mined to bid on Cole Por-
ter’s dining-room table in
the suite where his family
had celebrated many
Christmas dinners.
The graphic designer,
who runs a company in
Brooklyn, rented a car and
drove more than four
hours to a mall outside
Boston, where Kaminski
Auctions had displayed
80,000 items spread out
over 15,000 lots. Clark bid
on the mahogany table
and the 12 French Empire-
style dining chairs uphol-
stered in red fabric.
“It was my first auction
and I was really excited,”
said Clark, 35. “The table
came up at about 11:45 at
night, and I was the onlyone left in the mall with a
paddle. Everyone else was
bidding by phone.”
For years, Clark, his par-
ents and five siblings had
a festive dinner in the
6,000-square-foot Cole
Porter suite, where the
composer (above) lived
from 1934 until his death
in 1964. They gathered
around the Steinway
grand piano that hotel
management had given to
Porter and sang songs
while his uncle Kevin
played. They cooked theYuletide meal in the
sprawling suite’s kitchen.
The dinners took place
after the annual gala of
the Pennsylvania Society,
which another uncle,
Michael Clark, helped to
organize at the hotel ev-
ery year. It was Michael
Clark’s idea to book the
Cole Porter suite, which
he described as one of the
most elegant at the hotel.
John Clark won the ta-
ble, paying $18,000 plus a
20 percent commission to
Kaminski Auctions. The
Boston-based company
helped the owners of the
hotel raise $1.5 million —
exponentially more than
its pre-auction estimate of
$300,000 — for St. Bar-
tholomew’s Conservancy
to support the renovation
of the exteriors and gar-
dens of St. Bartholomew’s
Church and Community
House, a neighborhood
landmark across the street
from the Waldorf Astoria.
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is oh so ‘suite’
toast to tradition: Clark family enjoys Christmas dinner at the Cole Porter
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