Embassy Club

Since, unlike her friends, BC and her family were not now wealthy, she ran a London hat-shop briefly, and on one occasion she was hired to redecorate the fashionable Embassy Club in Bond Street.

BC delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club , as did Michael Arlen , Cecil Beaton , Charlie Chaplin , and Gloria Vanderbilt , and she counted...