Venetia Stanley
On the road, high society style
In 1949, aged 26, Judy Montagu, cousin of Mary Churchill and daughter of Venetia Stanley, criss-crossed the US in a Greyhound bus. The resulting diary is edited and annotated by her daughter, whose mother died when she was only nine
A romantic obsession: Precipice, by Robert Harris, reviewed
In the build-up to the Great War another drama unfolds, as the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith is seen to be distracted from politics by his infatuation with the beautiful Venetia Stanley
Skirmishes on the home front
You might be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another book about Margot Asquith. Her War…
