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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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‘We’re still undecided. Can you come
back in late October?’
‘If you can remember the
1922 Committee you weren’t there.’
‘I don’t know what all
the fuss is about.’
‘This is the real enemy: Big Farmer.’
‘I like my drugs like I like
my Brexit — hard.’
‘There’s not much choice — every
one of them is either female or male!’
‘Higher... higher!’
‘I bet he used a plastic straw...’
