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Lead book review

My family's better days

Claudia Renton's Those Wild Wyndhams captures the riches and rage of the famous high-society sisters — Mary, Madeline and my great-grandmother Pamela

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power Claudia Renton

William Collins, pp.492, £25, ISBN: 9780007544899

The Sargent painting reproduced opposite suggests the wealth and comfort that these three sisters, Mary, Madeline and Pamela, were born to. Their father, Percy Wyndham, was the younger son of Lord Leconfield of Petworth, Sussex. He was his father’s favourite, and was left by him as much of the immense Wyndham riches as was possible.

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