pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS
THE LIVES OF THE CURZON SISTERS
By: Anne De Courcy
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99
Our price: £9.48
Discount:
27% off
You save: £3.51
ISBN 10: 075381255X
ISBN 13: 9780753812556
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 5 available
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 1 July, 2001
Pages: 464
Description: The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.
Synopsis: 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 self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe.On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.
Illustrations: 32
Publication: UK
Imprint: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:
1939 (PB)
1939: THE LAST SEASON
1939: THE LAST SEASON
CHANEL''S RIVIERA
CHANEL''S RIVIERA
CHANEL''S RIVIERA (HB)
CHANEL''S RIVIERA (PB)
CHANELS RIVIERA (HB)
DEBS AT WAR
DEBS AT WAR (PB)
DIANA MOSLEY
DIANA MOSLEY (PB)
FIVE LOVE AFFAIRS AND A FRIENDSHIP
HUSBAND HUNTERS (HB)
HUSBAND HUNTERS (PB)
HUSBAND HUNTERS (PB)
HUSBAND-HUNTERS (PB)
MAGNIFICENT REBEL (HB)
MARGOT AT WAR
MARGOT AT WAR
MARGOT AT WAR (CD)
MARGOT AT WAR (CD)
MARGOT AT WAR (HB)
MARGOT AT WAR (PB)
SNOWDON
SNOWDON
SNOWDON (HB)
SNOWDON (PB)
SOCIETY'S QUEEN
SOCIETY'S QUEEN (PB)
THE FISHING FLEET
THE FISHING FLEET (CD)
THE FISHING FLEET (HB)
THE FISHING FLEET (HB)
THE FISHING FLEET (PB)
THE FISHING FLEET (PB)
THE FISHING FLEET (PB)
THE HUSBAND HUNTERS (HB)
THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS
THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS (AUD)
THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS (CD)
UNTITLED DE COURCY 1 OF 1 (PB)



Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket