SOCIAL CLIMES / THE BUZZ : In October, Almost a Royal Flush

Prince Charles won’t be the only royal Brit popping into Los Angeles next month. The Duchess of York, better known as Sarah (Fergie) Ferguson, is coming to the Carousel Ball on Oct. 28.

“She’s going to be duchess of the ball,” said Barbara Davis, who’s chairing the fund-raiser for the Children’s Diabetes Foundation. “I’m thrilled she’s joining our community in the fight against diabetes.”

The duchess, who’ll be staying with friends, will in all likelihood be seated at the same table as First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who’s receiving the foundation’s Brass Ring Award.

Fergie won’t be in town long. She leaves before Prince Charles arrives on Oct. 31 for the UK/LA festival.

Full Closure: The Westside is losing another of its ultra-discreet dining spots. Dominick’s, the small, unmarked, unadvertised nightspot on Beverly Boulevard with the entrance out back, will be closing in October “unless something miraculous happens,” said owner Lynne Giler. She cites four years of just breaking even as the reason for closing up shop.

“I’m going to go back to writing,” Giler said. “I did it successfully for 15 years. I don’t what possessed me to open a restaurant in the first place.”

Rag Cruising: Considering a past dispute, it’s a bit surprising to hear Tom Cruise will be on the cover of November’s Premiere magazine in connection with a story on the making of “Interview With a Vampire.”

Last year Cruise and the magazine wrangled over John H. Richardson’s feature on Scientology’s relationship with Hollywood. The controversial religion, of which Cruise is a member, threatened lawsuits. Cruise, who declined to be interviewed for the article, received a series of questions from a magazine fact-checker regarding what the article said about him. He sent a heated response with a request it be printed verbatim, which the magazine did.

The actor’s spokeswoman, Pat Kingsley, told us Cruise had said in his printed response that he would talk to Premiere in the future, that it would be wrong to confuse Scientology’s relationship with Premiere with Cruise’s relationship with the magazine, and “they printed what he wanted them to. Let bygones, be bygones.”

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