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Grace and Favour: The Memoirs of Loelia, Duchess of Westminster (1961)

by Loelia Lindsay

Other authors: Cecil Beaton (Photographer), Noel Coward (Foreword)

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Shy girl and former Bright Young Thing (with Bridget Jones’s talent for disaster) obsessed with Alice in Wonderland marries Britain's richest and indulged duke; older, not much wiser and with a fearsome temper. They live unhappily ever after (well, until the divorce) in a Gothic mansion that looked like Manchester town hall. Part Cinderella, Jane Eyre and Rebecca - watch out for the melodramatic scene with a decadent little clock with diamond hands flying across a room thrown by his grace and one of the best tiaras on any book cover ever. And it's all true.
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Beaton, CecilPhotographersecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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The memoirs of Loelia Ponsonby, later Lindsay (1902-1993), one of the "Bright Young Things" of the 1920s. She was married to Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, from 1930 to 1947. The Telegraph said in her obituary: Noel Coward wrote the foreword to the Duchess's well-received memoirs. He did so, he said, "cowed by the steely inflexibility of her tone and a look in her eye that I suspect caused the late Duke of Westminster some uneasy moments." Another friend, Ian Fleming, used her as the model for Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond books.
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