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Wealth is no guarantee of happiness. Look at the Sackville-Wests

A review of The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal, by Robert Sackville-West. This biography of the famous family does not end well

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

10 May 2014

9:00 AM

The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal Robert Sackville-West

Bloomsbury, pp.308, £20, ISBN: 9781408824825

When Robert Sackville-West was writing Inheritance (2010), his history of Knole and the Sackvilles, he was ‘struck’, as he recalls in his new book, by the way that Sackvilles have ‘tended to take Italian or Spanish dancers as mistresses’. The most notable of these was Josefa Duran, the flamenco dancer known as ‘Pepita’.

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