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410 Obituary of Michael Luke, op. cit.
411 Lewis, p. 428
412 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 128
413 Berners, letter to William Plomer
414 Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords, p. 260
415 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, Lord Berners, p. 235
416 Elizabeth Bowen, letter to Charles Ritchie, Glendinning, op. cit., p. 126
417 Beaton, The Happy Years, p. 130
418 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 130
419 Clarissa Eden, interview
420 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, op. cit, p. 235
421 Robert Heber-Percy, draft letter to unknown person, private papers
422 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, op. cit.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
‘From Catamite to Catamite’
Appearing between pages 288 and 309
423 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 131
424 John Betjeman, obituary of Lord Berners, Listener, 11 May 1950
425 Obituary of Lady Dorothy Heber-Percy, Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2001
426 Daily Express, 30 November 1950
427 Skelton, p. 97
428 Ibid., p. 98
429 Betty (Garth’s widow), interview
430 Charles Duff, interview
431 Susan Hazel, interview
432 Candida Lycett Green, interview
433 Deirdre Curteis, interview
434 Richard Brain, interview
435 Francis Wyndham, interview
436 Vickers, The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries, p. 371
437 Cyril Connolly papers, courtesy of Jeremy Lewis
438 Cressida Connolly, interview
439 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook
440 Thynn, p. 21
441 Zinovieff, pp. 304-305
442 Maureen Cleave, ‘The Performer at the Bottom of Mr Zinovieff’s Garden’, Evening Standard, 11 January 1968
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Nazi
Appearing between pages 311 and 325
443 Barbara Gilmore, interview
444 Desmond Ball, interview
445 Susanna Johnston, interview
446 Ibid.
447 Judith Webb, interview
448 Jack Fox, interview
449 James Skinner, interview
450 Jack Fox, interview
451 Candida Lycett Green, interview
452 Jonathan Burnham, interview
453 Taylor, p. 110
454 Motion, p. 336
455 ibid p. 351
456 Candida Lycett Green, ‘The Way Home’, blog: www.candidalycettgreen.co.uk, April 2010
457 Obituary of Lady Dorothy Heber-Percy, op. cit.
458 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 141
459 Mark Amory, interview
460 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 86
461 Marlborough, p. 235
462 Beaton, The Happy Years, p. 130
463 Hugo Vickers, interview
464 Vickers, The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries, p. 361
465 Martin Webb, interview
466 Vickers, op. cit., p. 374
467 Ibid.
468 Hugo Vickers, interview
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Robert’s Folly
Appearing between pages 328 and 342
469 Byrne, p. 163
470 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook
471 Cressida Connolly, interview
472 Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, interview
473 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook
474 Jonathan Burnham, interview
475 Susanna Johnston, interview
476 Ibid.
477 Joy Skinner, interview
478 Victoria Zinovieff, interview
479 Candida Lycett Green, interview
480 Deirdre Curteis, interview
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Purple Dye
Appearing between pages 353 and 370
481 Nancy Mitford, ‘Faringdon House’, House &Garden, Aug.–Sept. 1950 484
482 Joy Skinner, interview
483 Mario Testino, interview
484 Rose, p. 376
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Blood Ties
Appearing between pages 376 and 383
485 Victoria Zinovieff, interview
486 Devonshire, p. 132
487 Victoria Zinovieff, interview
488 Devonshire, p. 155
489 Victoria Zinovieff, interview
490 Lady Joanna Mersey, interview
491 Francis Wyndham, interview
492 Richard Brain, interview
493 Janetta Parlade, interview
494 Sarah Gibb, interview
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SOFKA ZINOVIEFF was born in London in 1961. She studied social anthropology at Cambridge and is the author of three previous books—Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens; Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life; and The House on Paradise Street. She lives with her husband and daughters at Faringdon.
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