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Perfect darling : the life and times of George Cornwallis-West / Eileen Quelch.

By: Publication details: London : Cecil and Amelia Woolf, 1972.Description: 211 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23cmISBN:
  • 0900821191 : (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 23
Summary: George Cornwallis-West, described by the late Randolph Churchill as the handsomest man of his generation, was born of a family who could claim a long descent when they fought with the Black Prince at Crecy and at Potiers. His mother was a famous Victorian beauty and wit. His sisters, stars in the Edwardian galaxy, married respectively one of Germany's wealthiest princes and England's richest duke. ... When he was twenty-five he married Jennie, the glamorous American widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of the ambitious young politician, Winston Churchill. When he was thirty-nine he married the celebrated actress , Mrs Patrick Campbell, and played Doolittle to her Eliza while on tour with Pygmalion in America.
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Includes index.

George Cornwallis-West, described by the late Randolph Churchill as the handsomest man of his generation, was born of a family who could claim a long descent when they fought with the Black Prince at Crecy and at Potiers. His mother was a famous Victorian beauty and wit. His sisters, stars in the Edwardian galaxy, married respectively one of Germany's wealthiest princes and England's richest duke.

... When he was twenty-five he married Jennie, the glamorous American widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of the ambitious young politician, Winston Churchill. When he was thirty-nine he married the celebrated actress , Mrs Patrick Campbell, and played Doolittle to her Eliza while on tour with Pygmalion in America.

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