This book, says its author, is not intended to be read as a straight biographical work. It is an entertainment, an examination of the fatal effects of myth, a dark fairytale.
qtd. in
Diski, Jenny. “Entitlement”. London Review of Books, 18 Oct. 2001, pp. 21-3.
CB
's The Last of the Duchess, an account of the final years of the Duchess of Windsor
written in 1980, appeared in print after one of its subjects, Maitre Suzanne Blum
, the...
