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Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A polished biography of an un cut gem of a woman, Sir Winston's ancestress, Sarah Churchill, who helped make the 18th century glitter...
...weekend from college, the Aga Khan, Harvard senior, flew to London, stopped at The Cygnet's House finishing school to call for 17-year-old Sylvia Casablancas, daughter of a Mexican businessman. Driving on to Woburn Abbey, the Aga and his possible Begum quietly visited his aunt, the Duchess of Bedford...
...rich, philistine Edwardian society, the Manners family was an island of liberal, slightly wacky culture. Mother patronized that daring new thing, the Russian Ballet, and was a talented artist. Once Queen Victoria posed for her briefly. (The duchess had to finish the sketch by rigging out a servant in a pudding-basin and mantilla.) Diana's sister-in-law took some pigs up in an airplane to prove that they could fly. Once in Venice the rich young pixies were visited by an old family friend, dressed him up as a doge and danced around him to celebrate...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A jewel box of a biography of the incomparable Sarah Churchill, wife to the hero of Blenheim, ancestress of Sir Winston...
...indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence's Boboli Garden in 1940, a polished marble Crucifix now in the Escorial near Madrid, a bust of the Duchess Eleanora (still lost), and a marble bust of Cosimo. The inventory of Cellini's studio taken after his death also listed the Cosimo, noting that it was unfinished...