King Edward VIII

Sylvia, Lady Brooke, recalled her father as one to whom nobody who was not somebody meant a thing. A sample of Orchard Lea's illustrious visitors included Esher's great friendKaiser Wilhelm II and a...

Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales and Prince George . A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald , claimed that he had read all of...

In FinlandRF met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim . On her first visit to the USA she met Rebecca West , Ruth Draper , Anna Pavlova , and H. G. Wells ; on...

This play's examination of modern sexual mores may have been provoked by a recent Hollywood scandal involving Greta Garbo , or more likely (in Riley's view) by the recent affair of King Edward VIII and...

While working very hard at the management of her plantation, she also found time for big-game hunting (some Africans called her Lioness Blixen). Additionally, she enjoyed practising medicine among her farm workers, somewhat in...

Along with acting, MLR continued to work as a producer. On 15 March 1920 her production of Come out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller opened at the Strand Theatre . This domestic comedy...

NM 's mother played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White and a shirt...

Years later it was rumoured that in 1914 SP had planned to kidnap the Prince of Wales . In 1932 a former Scotland Yard detective was set to publish a book entitled From Information Received...

Intensely political about issues involving war and pacifism, HD nevertheless limited her interest to particular areas of politics only. A few years before this she had been deeply invested in the British royal family, putting...

LCA produced lives of two members of the royal family. The Duchess of York (about the woman later much loved as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) appeared in spring1928, and God Save the King (a...

The book made immediate friends in high places. A Yugoslav shipowner's wife gave a copy to Princess Marina ,

Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF ; early signatories were the Prince of Wales and the Prime Minister . The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops...

When first married, CADS lived in a luxurious home at 2 Bennet Street in London. Her husband was often called out suddenly to nearby St James's Palace to attend on members of the royal...

Though far less well-known than Out of Africa (which was also written after leaving Africa, though after a shorter interval of time), it is just as evocative. Stambaugh quotes from it: A community of but...

RT brings together the publicly known facts about the Duchess of Windsor's last years, living in a flat in Paris under the control or manipulation of her secretive and possessive lawyer, with an imaginary interpretation...