Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter Diana Souhami (best english books to read .txt) 📖

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Alice Keppel’s name is abbreviated to AK

Acton, Sir Harold

Albemarle, 1st Earl of

Albemarle, 3rd Earl of

Albemarle, Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of

Albemarle, 7th Earl of

Albert, Prince Consort

Albert Victor, Prince, Duke of Clarence

Alexandra, Queen, personality; appearance; wedding

as Princess of Wales:

‘pin money’; social life; birth of her children; rheumatic fever; disabilities; and Prince of Wales; Aylesford scandal; recuperation

as Queen:

and AK; Fabergé pieces; charm; visits relatives; Mediterranean cruise; and the King’s last illness; and Cassel; the King’s death

Alice, Violet’s servant

Alington, Henry Sturt, 1st Baron

Alington, Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron

Alington, Lady

Alsop, Susan Mary

Ashcombe, 2nd Baron

Ashcombe, Lady

Ashley, Edwina

Ashley, Mary

Ashton, Dorothy

Asquith, Herbert Henry later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Asquith, Margot

Aylesford, Countess of

Aylesford, 7th Earl of

Baker, Sir Randolph

Baker, Valentine

Barney, Natalie

Baume, Countess de la

Beach, Sylvia

Beckett, William, later 2nd Baron Grimthorpe

Belloc Lowndes, Marie

Berenson, Bernard

Beresford, Lady Charles

Beresford, Lord Charles, later Baron Beresford

Berners, 14th Baron

Bernhardt, Sarah

Berry, Walter

Biarritz, the King and Keppels holiday in

Birch, Henry

Birkenhead, F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of

Blanche, Jacques-Emile

Blandford, Marquess of, later 8th Duke of Marlborough

Blériot, Louis

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, on the King

Bourdet, Denise

Bourdet, Edouard, La Prisonnière

Brienen, Daisy, Baroness de

Brock, Sir Thomas

Brooke, Lord, later 5th Earl of Warwick

Brooks, Romaine

Buckingham Palace, AK at; Lillie Langtry at; the King’s last illness

Bulberg, Baroness Moura

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

Caesar, the King’s Norfolk terrier

Calvatore, Marchesse de

Campbell, Lady Joan

Campbell, Mary

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry

Caracciolo, Duchess di

Carnock, Lady

Carriés, Jean

Carrington, 3rd Baron

Carritt, David

Carson, Sir Edward, later 1st Baron Carson

Casati, Marchesa

Cassel, Amalia Maud

Cassel, Edwina, later Countess Mountbatten

Cassel, Sir Ernest; the King’s financial adviser; appearance; shirts, the King and; and anti-Semitism; history; private life; Brooke House; honours; AK’s host in Biarritz; presents for Keppel girls; and his daughter; and AK; Knollys returns banknotes to; bust of the King; retirement; guests in Bournemouth; at Violet’s wedding; wedding present for Sonia

Cassel, Maudie

Cassel, Wilhelmina, called Bobbie

Chamberlain, Neville

Channon, Sir Henry

Chaplin, Henry, later 1st Viscount Chaplin

Chavannes, Marquis de

Chimay, Princess Gilone de

Christian of Denmark, Prince, later King Christian IX

Churchill, Clementine, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill

Churchill, Lord Randolph

Churchill, (Sir) Winston, Cassel’s guest; and impending coronation; Cassel and; AK’s lunch parties; Armistice; at Ombrellino

Clifden, Nellie

clothes, AK’s; Cassel’s shirts; dress for Sonia; Duchess of Rutland; Eiffel Tower costume ball; for Investiture; of the King of Duntreath; Keppel girls’ mourning; Keppel girls’ Easter clothes; ladies’, for shooting parties; at Prince of Wales’s wedding; Sandringham gamekeepers and beaters; Sonia’s trousseau; at Sonia’s wedding; for tea at Sandringham; Violet’s trousseau; at Violet’s wedding; Vita borrows; Vita’s breeches; Vita’s ‘Julian clothes’; Vita’s wedding

Cockburn, Sir Alexander

Cocteau, Jean

Cole, Lord, later 4th Earl of Enniskillen

Colette

Cooper, Lady Diana, later Viscountess Norwich

Cooper, Duff, later 1st Viscount Norwich

Cooper, Reggie

Corbett, Sir Vincent

Cossart, Michael de

Cowans, Sir John

Cresswell, Mrs Louise

Crowder, Henry

Cubitt, Henry

Cubitt, Jeremy

Cubitt, Hon. Roland later 3rd Baron Ashcombe

Cubitt, Mrs Roland, see Keppel, Sonia

Cubitt, Rosalind

Cumming, Sir William Gordon

Cunard, Nancy

Cunard, Victor

Dambatenne

Dansey, Henry

Dansey, Pat, and Violet; postponement of Violet’s wedding; and Denys; and Vita; holidays with Joan Campbell; writes to Violet; go-between; Violet writes to; writes to Vita; in love with Vita; and AK; and Violet’s possessions; derides Violet; Morning Post shares; Challenge

Derby, Countess of

Derby, 16th Earl of

Devonshire, 8th Duke of

Dickinson, Oswald

Disraeli, Benjamin, later Earl of Beaconsfield

Dodge, Mabel

Draper, Miss, AK’s housekeeper

Duntreath Castle

Duveen, Sir Joseph

Edmonstone, Archie, later Sir Archibald, AK and; interests; and Keppel, at Duntreath; to Ceylon; migraines; to China; death of his son; Clingendaal; and Violet

Edmonstone, Eva

Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s mother

Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s sister-in-law

Edmonstone, Ronnie

Edmonstone, Sir William, AK’s father

Edward VII, King

as Prince of Wales:

AK’s gift to; paintings; and Keppel family; and AK; dines with Keppels; appearance; smoking; appetite; education; pleasures; Grenadier Guards; affair with Nellie Clifden; tour of Egypt and Palestine; marriage; expenditure; income; hectic social life; and his wife; Mordaunt divorce case; letters to AK; in India; and Aylesford scandal; and Lillie Langtry; and Cleveland Street scandal; and Daisy Warwick; Baccarat Scandal; in Paris; and Victoria Sackville-West; and Olga de Meyer

as King:

and AK; personality; health; accession; coronation; appearance; and Cassel; financial affairs; holidays in Biarritz; bridge player; receives Asquith; at Duntreath; and Violet’s French governess; in Paris; death; and Queen Alexandra; food; lying in state; funeral; Blunt on; papers burned; photographs of

Edward VIII, King

Elizabeth I, Queen

Esher, 2nd Viscount

Estvan, Horthy

Evans, Sir Samuel

Faucigny Lucinge, Prince Rodolphe de

Fauré, Gabriel

Février, Jacques

Filmer, Lady

Flanner, Janet

Gaigneron, Jean de

Gandarillas, Tony

George, Prince, see York, Duke of

Gibbs, Frederick Waymouth

Gladstone, William Ewart

Goddard, Baron

Grant, Duncan

Grédy, Jean Pierre

Grenfell, Julian

Greville, Margaret

Grimthorpe, William Becket, 2nd Baron

Grosvenor, Rosamund

Grosvenor Street, AK’s house in; Osbert Sitwell on; improvements; Grenfell at; Violet on; Violet allowed to return to; AK moves from

Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness

Hamilton, Sir Edward

Harcourt, Antoinette, Duchesse d’

Harcourt, Duc d’

Hardinge, Sir Charles

Hastings, 4th Marquess of

Helen of Romania, Queen

Helleu, Paul

Heneage, Dorothy

Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron

Howe, Countess

Howe, 4th Earl

Hughes, Alice

Hunt, Mary

Hunter, Sir Archibald

Irons, Evelyn

Iveagh, 1st Earl of

Jacob, Max

James, Arthur

James, Henry

James, Venetia

James, Mrs Willie

Jews

Cassel; anti-semitism; and death of the King

Johnstone, Sir Frederick

Jullian, Philippe

Keppel, Alice

pre-War life:

and Prince of Wales; and Queen Alexandra; style; relationship with King Edward; clothes; jewels; appearance; Duntreath Castle; family background; and brother Archie; marries; early married days; attitude to adultery; and Sonia; King’s letter to; at coronation; the King’s sole mistress; wealth; holidays in Biarritz; in Paris; and her daughters; home life; bank manager’s admiration; shopping and visiting; visits the sick King; the King’s death; banknotes possibly intended for; life changes after King’s death; rumours of her party-giving; Dambatenne; to China; her Grosvenor Street house; resumes life in London; and Lady Sackville; wedding present to Vita; at Clingendaal

World War I:

War; and George Keppel; and Gerard Sturt; buys clothes in Paris; Connemara; Cassel’s guest; raves about Vita; and Violet; and Keppel’s future; nurses Sonia; Armistice

between the Wars:

Ashcombes disapprove of; and Denys; Challenge; fears for Sonia’s engagement; and Lord Ashcombe; Sonia’s trousseau; Bassano photographs; stays with Sonia; and Dansey; Nile cruise; suite at the Ritz; Ombrellino; and Reynaud; appearance; Birkenhead and; and Harry Cubitt

World War II and after:

outbreak of World War II; escape from France; at the Ritz; in poor health; appearance; wartime hardships; problem of clothes; money; summer 1946 in France; Ombrellino; death; importance of conventional standards of behaviour; her will

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