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The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice De Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll

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by Paul Spicer


  Mussolini, Benito

  Muthaiga Club (Nairobi)

  Myrtle Beach, S.C.

  Nairobi

  clubs in

  railway to

  Nairobi Club

  Nembutal

  New York City, William Silverthorne’s home in

  New York Times

  Ngong-Nairobi Road

  Ngong Road

  Nightingale, Florence

  Noailles, Anna de

  Norfolk Hotel (Nairobi)

  Norman, H. R.

  Normandy

  Northey, General Edward

  O’Neill, Pat Cavendish, Lion in the Bedroom

  Oserian (home of JH and Mary)

  Outfit, The (Chicago gang)

  Pakenham, Mrs. Dermot

  Parfondeval, Château de, Normandy

  AJ spends time at

  Paris

  AJ in

  aristocratic milieu of

  Paris-Soir

  Parkhurst Prison

  Patou, Jean

  Paul, Dr.

  Pearson, Noreen

  daughter of, bequeathed Wanjohi Farm

  Pembroke, Richard (“Dickie”)

  AJ’s letters to

  alibi for AJ

  background

  witness at HDB trial

  penises, showing off

  perfume

  pets, AJ’s love of

  Pitt, Peggy

  Pius XI, Pope

  Plunkett, Myrtle

  ponies, AJ’s

  Poppy, Arthur James

  Portluca (AJ’s cottage in Nairobi)

  Presbyterian faith

  Preston, Gerry

  Preston, Kiki

  primogeniture

  Prohibition

  Proust, Marcel

  Pygmies

  pyrethrum (crop)

  quinine

  Radford, Michael

  rail travel

  Ramsay-Hill, Cyril

  Ramsay-Hill, Mary (“Molly”) (later Erroll)

  death of

  poor health

  Ramsden, Sir John Frecheville (“Chops”)

  Rayetta (farm)

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Rice, Edward

  riding

  Ritz Hotel (London)

  road travel

  Roderigo (monkey)

  taken to France

  Rodwell, Edward

  Rougemont, Guillaume de

  roulette

  Ruta, Arap (driver)

  Ryan, Genevieve. See Janzé, Genevieve de

  Ryan, Thomas Jefferson

  Sackville, Albert, eighth Earl de la Warr

  Sackville, Idina (Lady Gordon)

  (1926) daughter born to

  (1928) separated from JH

  (1930) weds Donald Haldeman

  (1941) at HDB’s trial

  (1941) search for Erroll family pearls

  ancestry of

  elopement and marriage to Josslyn Hay

  pregnancy of

  scandalous behavior of

  social leadership in Wanjohi Valley

  safaris, big-game

  Saint-Lazare women’s prison (Paris)

  Samson (lion)

  Satima Farm (Buxton’s)

  Scott, Sir Francis

  Shannon, Father

  Shapley, Schwarze and Barratt

  Sharon, Conn., William Silverthorne’s home in

  “sheet game,”

  Sheridan, Sir Joseph

  ship travel

  Silverthorne, Albert David (William’s father)

  Silverthorne, Alice. See Janzé, Countess Alice de

  Silverthorne, Asa

  Silverthorne, Bill (son of William)

  Silverthorne, Juliabelle. See Chapin, Juliabelle

  Silverthorne, Patricia (half sister)

  Silverthorne, William (AJ’s father)

  (1892) marriage to Juliabelle Chapin

  (1908) second marriage to Louise Mattocks

  (1940) death of

  AJ’s weddings not attended by

  declining years

  estrangement from AJ in later years

  not invited to AJ’s weddings

  reputation as drinker, gambler, extravagant spender, and ladies’ man

  Sim, Uncle. See Chapin, Simeon B.

  Simpson, Wallis

  Sitwell, Osbert

  Slains (farm of Joss Hays)

  Soames, Jack

  witness at HDB trial

  Soldiers Settlement Scheme

  Soltau, Vincent

  Somers, Elizabeth

  Spanish Civil War

  Spaulding family

  Spicer, Bullen

  Spicer, June

  Spicer, Margaret

  friendship with AJ

  Spicer, Paul (author)

  Spicer, Roy

  Stanleyville

  Steinheil, Marguerite

  “The Storm” (juvenile poem by AJ)

  Suez Canal

  Sunday Dispatch

  Taporley Hunt Club

  Tattie, Aunt. See May, Alice

  Tchelitchew, Pavel Fedorovich

  Thermia Palace spa (Piestany, Slovakia)

  Tiwi

  AJ’s house in

  Trafford, Alice de. See Janzé, Countess Alice de

  Trafford, Sir Dermot de (6th baronet)

  Trafford, Sir Humphrey de (3rd baronet)

  Trafford, Humphrey de (4th baronet)

  Trafford, Raymund de

  (1926) visits Kenya and purposes to buy land

  (1926) goes on safari with FJ and AJ

  (1927) announces to AJ that he will not marry her

  (1927) shot and almost killed by AJ

  (1927) at AJ’s court proceedings

  (1928) AJ continues to see

  (1931) agrees to marry AJ

  (1932) marries AJ

  (1932) AJ seeks legal separation from

  (1933) shows up in Kenya

  (1939) drunk driving homicide, and prison sentence

  AJ’s café row with

  AJ’s correspondence with

  assault on an employee, and asked to leave Kenya

  background of

  character flaws

  gambling habit

  literary opinions of

  meets FJ and AJ

  sent to Australia

  Trafford, Sir Rudolph de (5th baronet)

  Trafford, Violet de

  Trafford family, genealogy of

  Trzebinski, Errol

  The Life and Death of Lord Erroll

  Uganda

  Valentino (baboon)

  Vanderbilt, Alice

  Vanderbilt, Gloria

  Vanderbilt, Reginald

  Vanderbilt family, safari with

  Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart Henry (7th Marquis of Londonderry)

  Vint, Dr.

  Voi

  Wallace, David

  Wallace, David Euan

  Wallace, Fabian

  Wallace, Gee

  Wanjohi Farm (AJ’s)

  bequeathed to AJ’s daughters under impossible conditions

  furnishings of

  new house built on

  now a school for girls

  Wanjohi Valley, Kenya

  decadent aristocrats in, news coverage of

  health benefits of

  Ward, Freda Dudley

  Wardell, Hilda

  Waterpark, Danièle

  Waterpark, Lord

  Watson, J. N. P.

  Waugh, Evelyn

  White Mischief (movie)

  White’s (London club)

  William IV, King

  Williamson, Henry

  women, single, not admitted to Kenya

  women’s clothes

  World War One

  World War Two

  run-up to

  THE TEMPTRESS. Copyright © 2010 by Paul Spicer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Spicer, Paul (Paul G. B.)

  The temptress: the scandalous life of Alice de Janzé and the mysterious death of Lord Erroll / Paul Spicer.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Not all images included in the print edition of this title are available in this ebook edition.

  ISBN: 978-1-4299-8472-0

  1. Janzé, Alice de, 1899–1941. 2. Erroll, Josslyn Hay, Earl of, 1901–1941. 3. Murder—Kenya—Nairobi—Case studies. 4. British—Kenya—History—20th century. I. Title.

  HV6535.K43N347 2010

  364.152'3092—dc22

  2009047038

  First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd in 2010

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  PART I

  One: The Heiress

  Two: The Countess

  Three: Kenya

  Four: Raymund and the Coup de Foudre

  Five: The Shooting at the Gare du Nord

  Six: Freedom and Exile

  Seven: The Bride in Black and White

  PART II

  Eight: The Return to Happy Valley

  Nine: The Gathering Storm

  Ten: The New Elements

  Eleven: The Murder of Lord Erroll

  Twelve: The Trial of Jock Delves Broughton

  Thirteen: The Case for Alice

  Fourteen: A Green Bedroom Full of Flowers

  Epilogue: The Missing Letter and the Great Beyond

  Author’s Note

  Cast of Characters

  Family Trees

  Bibliography

  Acknowledgments

  Index

 

 

 


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