Anne de Courcy, an escapee from tabloid journalism, has become a polished historian of British high society in the 20th century. Her book The Viceroy’s Daughters, an account of the three daughters of Lord Curzon, marked her transition from debutante-itis to something grittier. It was followed by a biography of Diana Mosley, published a few months after Mosley’s death.
Duncan Fallowell
Where’s Coco?
Far from being part of a gilded set, as Anne de Courcy suggests, Coco Chanel would mainly go to the Riviera to hide away with some raffish lover
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