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How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Pri
Discover the history at the heart of Robert Harris's number one bestseller PRECIPICE 'A plot that Downton Abbey would die for' Daily Mail 'A proper sex in high places scandal' Independent 'Books of the Year' Margot Asquith was
'A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny' Spectator Towards the end of the nineteenth
The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most se
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society. In 1933, Diana met t
A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of
Reichtum, Weltpolitik, Genie, Macht, Lebenshunger und Stil: An der französischen Riviera der 30er Jahre vereinen sie sich. Glamouröser Mittelpunkt ist Gabrielle Chanel, ursprünglich aus ärmsten Verhältnissen stammend. Ihre Zielstrebigkeit hat sie reich un