I read this book a few years back after seeing a review in the Guardian. It got me “hooked” on this amazing period of British aristocracy and have since read about 30 or so other books concerning this interesting period from about 1900 to WW2 featuring people like the Curzon sisters, Oswald Mosley, the Mitfords, Winston Churchill, Cecil Beaton, Edward VIII, Gladys Deacon, James Lees Milne, Chips Channon, Lady Londonderry and many others …