WORDS CHRIS DODD + HUGH MATHESON
An extract from the book More Power written by Chris Dodd and Hugh Matheson. Published by Harper Collins.
Henley Royal Regatta was a quintessential blend of Britishness in 1990. After a heady year in 1989, when it celebrated 150 years of rowing and garden-partying with a record entry for its fourteen events, it relaxed into its normal self. Normal, that is, for the home crowd, but surely bewildering to a quizzical family from, say, Magdeburg.