Mary S. Lovell

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, and when she was widowed at 16, she was still a virgin. At 19, she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor in King Henry VIII's Court of Augmentations. Responsible...

The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell is an enthralling biography that unveils the remarkable lives of the six Mitford sisters, whose tales are as colourful and dramatic as any fictional saga. Set against the backdrop of 20th-century Europe, this book delves into the highs and lows of an aristocratic family whose experiences range from high society glamour to political...

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years. This tale begins from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the...

"There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles," so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough—soldier of genius, restless empire-builder, and cuckolder of Charles II—onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers, and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men and women—grandly...