Sheila. The Australian Beauty Who Bewitched British Society

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Crows Nest
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 410 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: She wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for 40 years, and died a Russian princess Vivacious, confident, and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St. Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during World War I to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet, and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her "a divine woman" and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeths father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook, and Wallis Simpson. Sheila is a spellbinding portrait of an extraordinary woman, in a unique time and a place, who lived an utterly fascinating life.

ISBN: 9781743311318