![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, her charm and intelligence won her many friends, and her candid accounts of sumptuous balls and country-house weekends make for enchanting reading. She was not aided in her endeavour by a husband whose nickname of Sunny belied his grimly fastidious nature. Installed as the mistress of Blenheim Palace at the age of only 18, she struggled to find a place for herself within the glittering, self-confident world of the English aristocracy. Born into a family of staggering wealth and influence, Consuelo was effectively forced down the aisle by her ambitious and domineering mother, Alva. In this wonderfully evocative memoir, first published in 1953 and now reissued in an elegant new edition, the reluctant duchess recounted the circumstances behind her celebrated-and ultimately disastrous-marriage to a virtual stranger. Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners. ![]()
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