The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy

On Cimmie's early death in 1933, Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Grandi, while simultaneously enjoying the romantic devotion of the foreign secretary, Lord Halifax. Alexandra (Baba), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend - and best man - Fruity Metcalfe. Cynthia (Cimmie) married Sir Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular and successful Labour MP herself, then following him into fascism.

Irene, intensely musical and a passionate fox hunter, had love affairs with the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. The three Curzon sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the twenties and thirties.

It was his fierce determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives - including the money that was rightfully theirs - that led them one by one to revolt against their father. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon embarked on a long love affair with the novelist Elinor Glyn, before dropping her to marry his rich and beautiful second wife. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters - aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith. Print The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy