Hugo Vickers
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved. Born in Paris to American parents in 1881, Gladys emerged from a traumatic childhood - her father having shot her mother's lover dead when Gladys was only eleven - to captivate and inspire some of the greatest literary and artistic names of the Belle Epoque. Marcel Proust wrote of her, 'I never saw a girl with...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hugo Vickers's life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him to be his authorised biographer. The excitement of working with the famous photographer was dashed only days later when Cecil Beaton died. But the journey had begun - Vickers was entrusted with Beaton's papers, diaries and, most importantly, access to his friends and contemporaries. In Malice in Wonderland, Vickers shares excerpts from his personal diaries...
Author
Publisher
Zuleika
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Queen Mary, the widow of George V, and grandmother of the Queen, died at Marlborough House on 24 March 1953, a few months before the Coronation. She was eighty-five years old. Unusually for a Queen consort, an official biography was commissioned. The last similar exercise was the life of the Prince Consort, commissioned by Queen Victoria. The task was entrusted to James Pope-Hennessy. Pope-Hennessy embarked on his three year quest for Queen Mary...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. This combines his photographs with excepts from his journals.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From her humble beginnings, Margaret Thatcher fought her way through the sexist prejudices of the Conservative Party elite and the skepticism of the British electorate to become the greatest British Prime Minister since Winston Churchill.
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