I read “The Viceroy’s Daughters” in search of more information on Grace Hinds Duggan Curzon, George Curzon’s second wife and my fourth cousin on my father’s side. As previously written elsew...
Goodreads suggested that I might like this book based on my interest in the Mitfords and, as Irene, Cynthia and Alexandra Curzon, the Viceroy’s daughters, were brought up in England in great wealth ...
I'm surprised that no one has thought of turning this into a mini-series. Everything is there--the pre-war glamor,infidelities, celebrities and scandal, war time heroism.DeCourcy paints vivid portrait...
I cannot believe the morals of the generation between the wars. And what was the Oswald Mosley's hold on the sisters? What a mess, but you can't put it down....
"My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,I am a most superior person.My face is pink, my hair is sleek,I dine at Blenheim once a week."-Doggerel verse about Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India. A collective ...
The book is very well written and researched, but... Those three sisters are totally pale personalities compared to the mitford sisters. The curzon sisters , what I get from the reading of this book, ...
A biography of the aristocratic Curzon sisters who were contemporaries of the Mitfords and ran in circles with Wallis Simpson. The shenanigans that these old-timey proper Brits got up to never fail to...
Here is an extract from the precis on Goodreads. No point in me writing something. It was enough to get me hooked, as as with de Courcy's biog of Diana Moseley, I'm not disappointed thus far:Cynthis (...
Oh boy, this is a tough one. Many names I am totally unfamiliar with, and though interesting, it is a tough read for an American. Maybe much of this is familiar to English people and residents of the ...
Excellent book! Kept me hooked right up to the end!...