Anne de Courcy

'Racily enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'De Courcy brilliantly recreates the heady spirit of Cunard's Paris . . . You feel she really might have been there' Laura Freeman, The Times Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent, and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties....

How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and...

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938, the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed from politics or...

'A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers... Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny' Spectator Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the...

Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs, the five included in Five Love Affairs and a Friendship are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen (who characterised...

The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy explores the fascinating lives of Irene, Cynthia, and Alexandra, the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905. These sisters were entwined in the glamorous and tumultuous world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, born in 1896, was known for her love affairs within the prestigious Melton Mowbray hunting...

An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant...