Help! Beatles Ran Scared When the Toffs Rattled Their Jewellery Revealed: Diplomatic Cover-Up As Fab Four Mauled at Embassy

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IT was a very un-British to-do hushed up by a diplomatic silence. As the Fab Four entered the building they were mobbed and mauled by screaming fans who managed to snip off a lock of Ringo Starr's hair.

But the hysterical, baying crowd was not made up of starry-eyed Scouse schoolgirls, but the ballgown and tiara-wearing wives of Her Majesty's diplomatic corps in Washington DC.

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Help! Beatles Ran Scared When the Toffs Rattled Their Jewellery Revealed: Diplomatic Cover-Up As Fab Four Mauled at Embassy

A dignified soiree at the British Embassy descended into chaos when the arrival of the Beatles led the frightfully well-heeled and usually impeccably mannered guests to launch into a frenzy of decidedly undiplomatic behaviour.

Now, nearly half a century later, declassified Foreign Office files ...

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