Chips, The Diaries of Sir Henry Chips Channon
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James, Robert Rhodes (ed.) Chips, The Diaries of Sir Henry Chips Channon. First Edition. 1967. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows chipping to the spine ends and paper loss to the corners.
It might rankle the British, but the London best diarist since Samuel Pepys was the American expatriate Sir Henry Channon. Of course, as typical of a transplant, he became more English than they were themselves. He relocated from Chicago to London in 1918 and married well (to a Guinness heiress), became a British citizen, and embarked on a career in politics. He was the ultimate insider in the 1920s and 1930s, and his diaries are full of references to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Abdication Crisis, as well frequent mentions of one-of-a-kind personalities like Duff and Diana Cooper and Emerald Cunard.
“The romance [of the Prince and Mrs. Simpson] surpasses all else in interest. He is obviously madly infatuated, and she, a jolly, unprepossessing American, witty, a mimic, an excellent cook, has completely subjugated him. Never has he been so in love. She is madly anxious to storm society, while she is still his favourite, so that when he leaves her (as he leaves everyone in time) she will be secure.”
--Sir Henry Channon
It might rankle the British, but the London best diarist since Samuel Pepys was the American expatriate Sir Henry Channon. Of course, as typical of a transplant, he became more English than they were themselves. He relocated from Chicago to London in 1918 and married well (to a Guinness heiress), became a British citizen, and embarked on a career in politics. He was the ultimate insider in the 1920s and 1930s, and his diaries are full of references to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Abdication Crisis, as well frequent mentions of one-of-a-kind personalities like Duff and Diana Cooper and Emerald Cunard.
“The romance [of the Prince and Mrs. Simpson] surpasses all else in interest. He is obviously madly infatuated, and she, a jolly, unprepossessing American, witty, a mimic, an excellent cook, has completely subjugated him. Never has he been so in love. She is madly anxious to storm society, while she is still his favourite, so that when he leaves her (as he leaves everyone in time) she will be secure.”
--Sir Henry Channon
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