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From Edwardian idyll to meetings with Nehru: the life of Lady Ursula D’Asbo

A review of The Girl with the Widow’s Peak, by Lady Ursula d’Abo, with a foreword by John Julius Norwich. A very English tale of 20th-century upper-class comings and goings

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

5 July 2014

9:00 AM

The Girl with the Widow’s Peak: The Memoirs Lady Ursula d’Abo (with a foreword by John Julius Norwich)

D’Abo Publications (distributed by Loose Chippings), pp.192, £12.50, ISBN: 9781907991097

This is the Real Thing, an evocative account of English upper-class life throughout the 20th century. It begins amidst the Edwardian feudal splendours of Belvoir Castle, where Ursula d’Abo spent much of her childhood with her beloved grandfather ‘Appi’. At the coronation of George VI she was a maid of honour to the Queen.

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