Cocktails & Laughter, The Albums of Loelia Lindsay
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Loelia, Duchess of Westminster. Cocktails & Laughter, The Albums of Loelia Lindsay. First Edition. 1983. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Edited by Hugo Vickers.
This is a collection of photographs culled from the scrapbooks of 20th Century hostess Loelia Lindsay, who married (and divorced) the Duke of Westminster (“Bendor,” who was also the lover of Coco Chanel). The book is a byzantine network of associations—each page is a new surprise. The Duchess’s witty, gossipy captions are outstanding, offering intimate and candid glimpses into the lives of Ian and Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper, Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, lesser royalty, and a multitude of New York and Hollywood personalities.
“Eaton, the official home of the Westminsters, was more like a village than a country house. I was often asked if it was the largest house in England. The reply was that at Wentworth Woodhouse, Lord Fitzwilliam’s house in Yorkshire, they could put up two more guests than our maximum of sixty.”
--Loelia, Duchess of Westminster
This is a collection of photographs culled from the scrapbooks of 20th Century hostess Loelia Lindsay, who married (and divorced) the Duke of Westminster (“Bendor,” who was also the lover of Coco Chanel). The book is a byzantine network of associations—each page is a new surprise. The Duchess’s witty, gossipy captions are outstanding, offering intimate and candid glimpses into the lives of Ian and Ann Fleming, Lady Diana Cooper, Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, lesser royalty, and a multitude of New York and Hollywood personalities.
“Eaton, the official home of the Westminsters, was more like a village than a country house. I was often asked if it was the largest house in England. The reply was that at Wentworth Woodhouse, Lord Fitzwilliam’s house in Yorkshire, they could put up two more guests than our maximum of sixty.”
--Loelia, Duchess of Westminster
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