Bronwen Astor: Her Life and Times - Softcover

Stanford, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006388590 ISBN 13: 9780006388593

Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This absorbing biography of Lady Bronwen Astor—celebrated model, media darling, and one of the great beauties of her day—vividly recreates the postwar fashion world, the legendary social scene at Cliveden, and the most sensational political scandal of modern times.

About this title

From the Publisher:

When Bronwen Pugh married into the illustrious Astor clan in 1960, she seemed to have the world at her feet. A successful BBC media figure and the most famous model of her generation, she then became mistress of Cliveden, the Italianate mansion that her mother–in–law, Nancy Astor, had made famous with her political salons. Yet within three years of her marriage to Bill Astor, Bronwen’s world was turned upside down by the Profumo scandal. Cliveden, it was alleged, was at the center of an international web of sexual debauchery and espionage that ultimately brought down Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In recording the private agony behind the public disgrace, Peter Stanford was granted unprecedented access to both Lady Astor and her papers. The result is a skillful illumination of an extraordinary life. Peter Stanford’s previous books include The Legend of Pope Joan and The Devil: A Biography.

About the Author:

Peter Stanford's previous books include biographies of Lord Longford, Cardinal Basil Hume and the Devil. He has written an investigation of the Pope Joan legend and a polemical book, Catholics and Sex, which accompanied a Channel 4 television series. He contributes regularly to the Guardian and Sunday Telegraph and New Statesman. A regular broadcaster, he is also chairman of the national disability charity ASPIRE.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0006388590
• ISBN 13: 9780006388593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352