Emerald Cunard
Cash for coronets: the invasion of America’s social-climbing heiresses
The undignified ‘cash for coronets’ deal between America’s heiresses and Europe’s nobility produced some marvellous stories, says Nicholas Shakespeare
How to suck up in society — with the Cunards, the Corrigans and the Colefaxes
A more appropriate subtitle to this homage to the queen bees of the interwar years might have been ‘How to…
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‘Don’t just sit there, Google something!’
‘I used to be fat and sad. Then I exercised.
Then I dieted. Then I became superfit.
Superfit and supersad.’
‘Turn left on to the heath. Then you have reached your destination.’
‘He’s playing with his HS2 train set.’
‘We’ve had the room
painted “privilege white”.’
‘The world is urging restraint, sir.’
‘The booster seat is for John Bercow.’
‘Turn me into a princess?
Haven’t I suffered enough?’
Left: Man stands aside
for woman Right: Man doesn’t stand
aside for woman
‘My wife wants to send me to Coventry.’