![]() ![]() Zinovieff pens a compelling and engaging study of these strong personalities, and their equally colourful friends, associates and sometimes enemies. Robert married Katherine Fry, a society beauty in a surprise marriage, for Robert was known as a homosexual amongst the elite, and they had a daughter, born in 1942, who is the writer’s mother. ![]() The author’s maternal grandfather was Robert Heber-Percy, known as The Mad Boy, heir and close friend/lover of the eccentric composer and writer Lord Gerald Berners and owner of Faringdon House, in Oxfordshire. This is both a charming and very well-written group biography, as well as a fresh examination of those eccentric, privileged and wealthy characters who were prominent in Britain’s social and cultural elite in the 1920s and ’30s. The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me ![]()
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