"Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944" von Anne De Courcy bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Leben an der französischen Riviera während der turbulenten Jahre zwischen 1930 und 1944. Das...

The young American heiresses who married into the English aristocracy who were referred to as 'Dollar Princesses' are considered in relation to the history of the day, from Jennie Jerome's marriage to Randolph Churchill in 1874 to the...

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on...

A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the...

Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 von De Courcy, Anne