Lyndsy Spence
Auteur van The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
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Lyndsy Spence is a celebrated historian who specialises in daring aristocratic women. Her previous books for The History Press include The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne (2018) and Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite (2017).
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The book does a good job of narrating the facts of Margaret's life. She's not someone I feel sorry for. But I also don't feel she was fairly treated in some respects. A couple of quibbles: this book consistently refers to Prince George, Duke of Kent, as Prince George of Kent, which was wrong. The book also talked about the actress Pola Negri, mentioning her as "Polo Negri".
A good intro to someone who was arguably the most famous of the duchesses of Argyll.… (meer)