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Chanel's Riviera - Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed ...Show more
Margot at War: In Love, Peace and War at Downing Street by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intens ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-hunting in the Raj by Anne De Courcy
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Category: History
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible me ...Show more
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne De Courcy
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
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