Pimm's, parties and power players: How Chelsea Flower Show became the start of the cool crowd's social calendar

The bees are buzzing, the Chelsea Pensioners are posing in their finest red coat tails and horticulture legend Monty Don is brushing shoulders with the Princess of Wales, Dame Judi Dench and Matthew Macfadyen among the foxgloves in the show gardens.

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