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Lady Pamela Berry
- Passion, Politics and Power
Engelsk Hardback
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Lady Pamela Berry
- Passion, Politics and Power
Engelsk Hardback

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This is a biography lightened with the intimate tone of a social memoir, about a woman who was both a bystander and protagonist through some fifty years of twentieth-century British history. Pamela Berry was the daughter of the buccaneering and brilliant politician and lawyer, FE Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead, and married the son of another self-made man, William Berry from South Wales, who became Viscount Camrose and the owner of a group of national newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. She had an unusually glamorous and precocious childhood, spoiled by her adoring father, and much photographed by Cecil Beaton. In her prime she used her position as a newspaper proprietor’s wife to become the most famous political and press hostess of her generation, harnessing her beauty and wit to influence successive governments, and was accused of wielding ‘petticoat power’ during the Suez crisis. She had a decade-long affair with Malcolm Muggeridge, became a vigorous promoter of British fashion, dragging it out of the dowdy fifties, and in later life was active in the museum world. Harriet Cullen has opened a window back into the remarkable story of her mother’s life from a rich cache of family diaries and letters, interweaving them with many other unpublished sources. It is revealing, in turns scathing and admiring, but always entertaining.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781916846661
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1916846661
Udg. Dato:
27 mar 2025
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
168mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Unicorn Publishing Group
Oplagsdato:
27 mar 2025
Forfatter(e):
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