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Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter: A Biography | Diana Souhami

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Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.

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Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter: A Biography | Diana Souhami

#riotgrams #orangeandpurple Both still on TBR.There must have been lively conversation about the Strachey book published in 1936.He also wrote a book about the rise of fascism I want to find.Alice Keppel was the married lover of Queen Victoria‘s son & Camilla Parker-Bowles grandmother .That adultery was deemed ok by the court, but when Alices daughter Violet Trefusis becomes Vita Sackville-Wests lover , that‘s deemed not ok.

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