Anne de Courcy

Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the…

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…

A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought…

From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society…

An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members…

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her…

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey…

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel…

The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at…

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…