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Chanel's Riviera
- The Côte d’Azur in Peace and War, 1930-1944
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed from politics or conflict.
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Very detailed social history
- By Vanessa Young on 23-06-2019
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Chanel's Riviera
- The Côte d’Azur in Peace and War, 1930-1944
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2019
- Language: English
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The Husband Hunters
- Social Climbing in London and New York
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive firsthand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.
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For fans of social history.
- By Vanessa Young on 12-06-2017
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The Husband Hunters
- Social Climbing in London and New York
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2017
- Language: English
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The Fishing Fleet
- Husband-Hunting in the Raj
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers, and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in Britain, followed in their wake. This amorphous band was composed of daughters returning after their English education, girls invited to stay with married sisters or friends, and yet others whose declared or undeclared goal was simply to find a husband.
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so biring
- By sohkiak on 27-04-2020
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The Fishing Fleet
- Husband-Hunting in the Raj
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2012
- Language: English
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Margot at War
- Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
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Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period of intense emotional and political turmoil in her private and public life.
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Interesting Times
- By SW TUBBS on 20-12-2018
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Margot at War
- Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2015
- Language: English
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Society's Queen
- The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 14 hrs
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From the author of the critically acclaimed The Viceroy's Daughters, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years. At the age of 21, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Her husband served in the Ulster cabinet and was Air Minister in the National Government of 1934-5. Edith founded the Women's Legion during the First World War and was also an early campaigner for women's suffrage.
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Society's Queen
- The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 22-04-2021
- Language: English
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Debs at War
- 1939-1945
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 12 hrs
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Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. For many, the almost military regime of an upper class childhood meant they were well suited for the no-nonsense approach needed in wartime.
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Debs at War
- 1939-1945
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 25-03-2021
- Language: English
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1939: The Last Season
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 9 hrs
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The season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the king and queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls and parties and sporting events. As the hot summer drew on, the newspapers filled with ever more ominous reports of the relentless progress towards war. There was nothing to do but wait - and dance.
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1939: The Last Season
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 25-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Viceroy's Daughters
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 9 hrs
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The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b. 1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father.
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The Viceroy's Daughters
- Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 25-03-2021
- Language: English
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Snowdon
- The Biography
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 16 hrs
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How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about.
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Snowdon
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 25-02-2021
- Language: English
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