Antonia Fraser traces the lives of Irene, Cynthia and Alexandra Curzon, the three daughters of George Curzon, Viceroy of India. After the early death of their American mother, the sisters grew up under a father determined to control their money, marriages and public conduct, even as each sought increasing independence.
Their adult lives placed them close to British political and social power between the wars. Cynthia married Oswald Mosley and entered politics herself; Alexandra moved through the circle of the Prince of Wales and later had a relationship with Mosley; Irene pursued her own social, musical and public interests. Through the sisters, the book examines aristocratic society, the rise of British fascism, the abdication era and the changing place of elite women in twentieth-century Britain.
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