Edwina Mountbatten

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This biography is as fascinating as the life it reveals. Edwina Ashley was born to be rich, beautiful, wilful and indulged and, following her brilliant marriage in 1922 to Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the Prince of Wales, lived a fashionable and privileged life almost totallv dedicated to the hectic pursuit of pleasure. « « 11 • i .1 1 r i v . ii • 1 11 • . 11* • • " indomitable energy and immense social influence to the service of others. Janet Morgan has an engrossing story to teli and this frank, meticulously researched and authoritative biography encompasses a turbulent period of history as weil as the life and lj>ves of a remarkable woman.' P.D. James fiA luminous portrait of a fragile, porcelain beauty whose - . surface has been peeled away to reveal a troubled soul. Edwina's fundamental tragedy, as it emerges from this humane, sensitive, carefully researched ; , and beautifully written biography, is that her life was everybody's but her own.' Bemard Wasserstein,... Tovább

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This biography is as fascinating as the life it reveals. Edwina Ashley was born to be rich, beautiful, wilful and indulged and, following her brilliant marriage in 1922 to Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the Prince of Wales, lived a fashionable and privileged life almost totallv dedicated to the hectic pursuit of pleasure. « « 11 • i .1 1 r i v . ii • 1 11 • . 11* • • " indomitable energy and immense social influence to the service of others. Janet Morgan has an engrossing story to teli and this frank, meticulously researched and authoritative biography encompasses a turbulent period of history as weil as the life and lj>ves of a remarkable woman.' P.D. James fiA luminous portrait of a fragile, porcelain beauty whose - . surface has been peeled away to reveal a troubled soul. Edwina's fundamental tragedy, as it emerges from this humane, sensitive, carefully researched ; , and beautifully written biography, is that her life was everybody's but her own.' Bemard Wasserstein, Financial Times LA veritable feast for the voyeur. So candid a portrait of a marriage... it is likely to make the house of Windsor wince.' ____ - < Anthony Howard, Sunday Times \ ¦ ? r That rare combination: a good, critical biography and a well-told tale. I will be astonished if it does not win several awards.' - Hugó Vickers, The Times The biography of Edwina was eminently weil worth writing. It is hard to see how it could have been better done. Morgan describes this extraordinary life with afFection, understanding and totál honesty.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph 'Morgan is good at the sweep of things. Still better, she has described the paralysis of heart that has for so long stultified the British upper classes. Insights leap from every page.' Fiona MacCarthy, Observer Cover photograph by Cecil Beaton, courtesy ofSotheby's London Vissza