Alice Keppel

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

In Don't Look Round, she remembers that the idea of matrimony crept insidiously into our conversation, because Osbert felt a schoolboy adulation for Mrs Keppel , while Violet was infatuated both with Renishaw...

Alice Keppel strongly disapproved of the relationship between Violet and Vita for many reasons, including the threat posed by the growing scandal over it to Sonia Keppel 's upcoming marriage into a staunchly conservative English family.

In March 1919 VT gave in to her mother 's wishes and agreed to marry Denys Trefusis , a Major in the Royal Horse Guards serving in Belgium, whom Violet met when he returned...

Because the Princesse was wealthy, well-connected, and discreet, Alice Keppel had no objection to this affair.

For Christmas 1923, the Princesse de Polignac took VT on a luxury cruise up the Nile; their group included Denys Trefusis and George and Alice Keppel , all of whom were aware of and...

Over three hundred guests attended the coming-out ball of Violet Keppel (later VT ) at 16 Grosvenor Street, which her mother, Alice Keppel , coordinated with military precision.

Alice Keppel purchased in 1924 a villa overlooking Florence, named Ombrellino. It had once been Galileo 's home; contemporary neighbours included Mabel Dodge and Harold Acton . By 1934 Ombrellino had become VT 's...

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

VT , like Alice Keppel , spent part of the war at endless parties, even if in wartime conditions none of them could compete with her parties at the Eiffel Tower. Her re-entry...

VT travelled through Africa, Europe, and North and South America with her the Princesse de Polignac , husband , andparents .

She died in her mother 's bed. In keeping with her request, her ashes were scattered over her mother's grave in Florence, and at her own home, St Loup.

Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.

As a young woman at home before the First World War she wrote poetry which she was eager to discuss with her friends and those of her mother. She had some of these poems privately...

Alice Keppel financed her daughter VT 's move to the Manor House at West Coker in Somerset.