Ysenda Maxtone Graham
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The brutal Nazi who saved my father's life... (opens the original)
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A few days before the American Army liberated Colditz in April 1945, the small group of high-born prisoners-of-war known as the Prominente were whisked away in middle of the night to another prison camp in the foothills of the Alps near Hitler’s retreat in Berchtesgaden. All too aware that they were really being held as hostages, ‘something to negotiate with when the war ends,’ as one of them put it, they were terrified they were about to be shot in a final act of the Fuhrers’ vengeful fury. The
The outrageous life and lines of Dame Barbara Cartland (opens the original)
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Dame Barbara Cartland wrote 723 novels. Except she didn’t. Rather than putting pen to paper, Barbara, recumbent on a couch and clutching a lapdog, dictated for hours to a secretary, who took it all down, 7,000 words a session, a book completed every fortnight. The result, transcribed and typed up by anonymous helpers, was tied up in pink ribbon and delivered in a white Rolls-Royce to the publishers. Page proofs were left for the authoress at Claridge’s, where she lunched every Wednesday. Dame Ba
I eat a grain of my mother ashes before all my opening nights... (opens the original)
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A bottle of Prosecco in Dame Diana’s trailer. That clause was written into Diana Rigg’s contract when she played the Duchess of Buccleuch in ITV’s Victoria at the age of 79. Still oozing charisma and bursting with acting vigour, she had no intention of giving up her lifelong habit of a glass of fizz before going on set or onstage. As her only daughter, the actress Rachael Stirling writes in her deliciously readable and deeply touching mother-and-daughter memoir, ‘I would love to have a nightly g
The real relationship between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson (opens the original)
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'God damn you!’ were the last words of King George V, spoken to a nurse attempting to administer an injection. It was a crotchety end for the 70-year-old pheasant-shooting, stamp-collecting king, who’d worked hard to uphold rigid Edwardian standards throughout his reign. With a fatal overdose of morphine and cocaine injected into his jugular vein by his physician, timed so the death would be announced in The Times rather than the more downmarket evening papers, the king died in the night of Janu
'The very worst thing I shall ever do as a mother' (opens the original)
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With a twinkle in his eye, novelist Hannah Richell’s handsome, hyper-fit husband Matt mentioned one morning in July 2014, over coffee at their favourite pavement cafe in Sydney, that he’d arranged a ‘board meeting’ for that afternoon. As the CEO of a publishing house, this was not unusual, but today he meant something different. He’d arranged to meet his surfing friend Adam for a good surf on Tamarama Beach. He and Hannah kissed goodbye in the sunshine and Matt quoted something funny their six-y
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