"I was one of the first members and I became its first patron, a role I still hold today," she said.
Acting as the race's patron, a role seldom assumed these days, Froome swung off the front and, with a gesture of his hand, slowed the peloton right down and appeared to take a quick pee break during which, by tradition, the yellow jersey is not attacked.
While her acting career may be in the rearview mirror, the former "Suits" star returned to the stage this week as she made her first official visit to the National Theatre in London as patron, a role Queen Elizabeth passed on to one of the newest members of her family.
He's also a patron of Diversity Role Models.
Playing a nightclub patron (a nonspeaking role) was not his idea, Mr. Powell said.
But on Tuesday, he took on a new role: patron at a strip club, however briefly, now appearing as a witness in court.
In the meantime, the old board of Poetry — Chicago arts patrons, mostly, whose role was fund-raising — began to be reconfigured into the Poetry Foundation.
Don't be surprised if you find yourself the subject of an impromptu artwork; the illustrator David Downton has been commissioned to draw portraits of stylish patrons in his role as artist-in-residence.
Any student of art history will read of the role patrons have played in commissioning works of art and defining the direction of taste.
Here, the client from the primary relation plays the role of patron in a secondary relation, and his patron from the primary relation may not have any connection to his client in the secondary relation.
