Possible Clues:

• Shindigs
• Regales
• Festive celebrations
• Sounds as if destinies are set up at last for sale
• Leader of Tories involved in payments for honours
• Parties for royalty, say
• Festivals celebrating Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, say?
• Gala celebrations
• Fraternity parties they're not
• Celebrates and starts taking in charges