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The Mistress of Mayfair - Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Mistress of Mayfair - Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne (Paperback, New Ed)
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Discovery Miles 2 610
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The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies,
but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright
Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of
scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of 1920s
and '30s high society, focusing on the wily, wilful socialite Doris
Delevingne and her doomed relationship with the gossip columnist
Valentine Browne, Viscount Castlerosse. Marrying each other in
pursuit of the finer things in life, their unlikely union was
tempestuous from the off, rocked by affairs (with a whole host of
society figures, including Cecil Beaton, Diana Mitford and Winston
Churchill, to name but a few) on both sides, and eventually
degenerated into one of London's bitterest, and most talked about,
divorce battles. In The Mistress of Mayfair, Lyndsy Spence follows
the rise and fall of their relationship, exploring their decadent
society lives in revelatory detail and offering new insight into
some of the mid-twentieth century's most prominent figures.
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