Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter

by Diana Souhami

  Cassel, Maudie

  Cassel, Wilhelmina, called Bobbie

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Channon, Sir Henry

  Chaplin, Henry, later 1st Viscount Chaplin

  Chavannes, Marquis de

  Chimay, Princess Gilone de

  Christian of Denmark, Prince, later King Christian IX

  Churchill, Clementine, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill

  Churchill, Lord Randolph

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston, Cassel’s guest; and impending coronation; Cassel and; AK’s lunch parties; Armistice; at Ombrellino

  Clifden, Nellie

  clothes, AK’s; Cassel’s shirts; dress for Sonia; Duchess of Rutland; Eiffel Tower costume ball; for Investiture; of the King of Duntreath; Keppel girls’ mourning; Keppel girls’ Easter clothes; ladies’, for shooting parties; at Prince of Wales’s wedding; Sandringham gamekeepers and beaters; Sonia’s trousseau; at Sonia’s wedding; for tea at Sandringham; Violet’s trousseau; at Violet’s wedding; Vita borrows; Vita’s breeches; Vita’s ‘Julian clothes’; Vita’s wedding

  Cockburn, Sir Alexander

  Cocteau, Jean

  Cole, Lord, later 4th Earl of Enniskillen

  Colette

  Cooper, Lady Diana, later Viscountess Norwich

  Cooper, Duff, later 1st Viscount Norwich

  Cooper, Reggie

  Corbett, Sir Vincent

  Cossart, Michael de

  Cowans, Sir John

  Cresswell, Mrs Louise

  Crowder, Henry

  Cubitt, Henry

  Cubitt, Jeremy

  Cubitt, Hon. Roland later 3rd Baron Ashcombe

  Cubitt, Mrs Roland, see Keppel, Sonia

  Cubitt, Rosalind

  Cumming, Sir William Gordon

  Cunard, Nancy

  Cunard, Victor

  Dambatenne

  Dansey, Henry

  Dansey, Pat, and Violet; postponement of Violet’s wedding; and Denys; and Vita; holidays with Joan Campbell; writes to Violet; go-between; Violet writes to; writes to Vita; in love with Vita; and AK; and Violet’s possessions; derides Violet; Morning Post shares; Challenge

  Derby, Countess of

  Derby, 16th Earl of

  Devonshire, 8th Duke of

  Dickinson, Oswald

  Disraeli, Benjamin, later Earl of Beaconsfield

  Dodge, Mabel

  Draper, Miss, AK’s housekeeper

  Duntreath Castle

  Duveen, Sir Joseph

  Edmonstone, Archie, later Sir Archibald, AK and; interests; and Keppel, at Duntreath; to Ceylon; migraines; to China; death of his son; Clingendaal; and Violet

  Edmonstone, Eva

  Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s mother

  Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s sister-in-law

  Edmonstone, Ronnie

  Edmonstone, Sir William, AK’s father

  Edward VII, King

  as Prince of Wales:

  AK’s gift to; paintings; and Keppel family; and AK; dines with Keppels; appearance; smoking; appetite; education; pleasures; Grenadier Guards; affair with Nellie Clifden; tour of Egypt and Palestine; marriage; expenditure; income; hectic social life; and his wife; Mordaunt divorce case; letters to AK; in India; and Aylesford scandal; and Lillie Langtry; and Cleveland Street scandal; and Daisy Warwick; Baccarat Scandal; in Paris; and Victoria Sackville-West; and Olga de Meyer

  as King:

  and AK; personality; health; accession; coronation; appearance; and Cassel; financial affairs; holidays in Biarritz; bridge player; receives Asquith; at Duntreath; and Violet’s French governess; in Paris; death; and Queen Alexandra; food; lying in state; funeral; Blunt on; papers burned; photographs of

  Edward VIII, King

  Elizabeth I, Queen

  Esher, 2nd Viscount

  Estvan, Horthy

  Evans, Sir Samuel

  Faucigny Lucinge, Prince Rodolphe de

  Fauré, Gabriel

  Février, Jacques

  Filmer, Lady

  Flanner, Janet

  Gaigneron, Jean de

  Gandarillas, Tony

  George, Prince, see York, Duke of

  Gibbs, Frederick Waymouth

  Gladstone, William Ewart

  Goddard, Baron

  Grant, Duncan

  Grédy, Jean Pierre

  Grenfell, Julian

  Greville, Margaret

  Grimthorpe, William Becket, 2nd Baron

  Grosvenor, Rosamund

  Grosvenor Street, AK’s house in; Osbert Sitwell on; improvements; Grenfell at; Violet on; Violet allowed to return to; AK moves from

  Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness

  Hamilton, Sir Edward

  Harcourt, Antoinette, Duchesse d’

  Harcourt, Duc d’

  Hardinge, Sir Charles

  Hastings, 4th Marquess of

  Helen of Romania, Queen

  Helleu, Paul

  Heneage, Dorothy

  Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron

  Howe, Countess

  Howe, 4th Earl

  Hughes, Alice

  Hunt, Mary

  Hunter, Sir Archibald

  Irons, Evelyn

  Iveagh, 1st Earl of

  Jacob, Max

  James, Arthur

  James, Henry

  James, Venetia

  James, Mrs Willie

  Jews

  Cassel; anti-semitism; and death of the King

  Johnstone, Sir Frederick

  Jullian, Philippe

  Keppel, Alice

  pre-War life:

  and Prince of Wales; and Queen Alexandra; style; relationship with King Edward; clothes; jewels; appearance; Duntreath Castle; family background; and brother Archie; marries; early married days; attitude to adultery; and Sonia; King’s letter to; at coronation; the King’s sole mistress; wealth; holidays in Biarritz; in Paris; and her daughters; home life; bank manager’s admiration; shopping and visiting; visits the sick King; the King’s death; banknotes possibly intended for; life changes after King’s death; rumours of her party-giving; Dambatenne; to China; her Grosvenor Street house; resumes life in London; and Lady Sackville; wedding present to Vita; at Clingendaal

  World War I:

  War; and George Keppel; and Gerard Sturt; buys clothes in Paris; Connemara; Cassel’s guest; raves about Vita; and Violet; and Keppel’s future; nurses Sonia; Armistice

  between the Wars:

  Ashcombes disapprove of; and Denys; Challenge; fears for Sonia’s engagement; and Lord Ashcombe; Sonia’s trousseau; Bassano photographs; stays with Sonia; and Dansey; Nile cruise; suite at the Ritz; Ombrellino; and Reynaud; appearance; Birkenhead and; and Harry Cubitt

  World War II and after:

  outbreak of World War II; escape from France; at the Ritz; in poor health; appearance; wartime hardships; problem of clothes; money; summer 1946 in France; Ombrellino; death; importance of conventional standards of behaviour; her will

  opinions given by:

  Acton, Channon; Dansey; Lady Cecilia McKenna; Nicolson; Osbert Sitwell; Sonia; Violet; Virginia Woolf

  personality:

  acquisitiveness; in anger; charm; discretion; graciousness; happiness; hauteur; importance of social code; joie de vivre; kindness; munificence; persuasiveness; poise; self-confidence; sexual power; straightforwardness; wit

  and Violet:

  small daughter; portrait; in Paris; and Violet’s appearance; Violet’s ‘wonderful season’; wants Violet to marry; photograph; Violet’s affair with Vita; announces Violet’s engagement; Violet’s poetry; rows; gives ball for Violet’s impending marriage; clothes for Violet’s wedding; wedding present for Violet; Violet’s trousseau; rents house for Violet; Violet’s plea for a separation; buys Stonewall Cottage for; Denys’s wish for annulment; will not speak to Violet; Denys’s account of her will; Violet’s ‘momentous interview’ with; writes to Violet; will agree to annulment; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; Violet discusses her feelings for Vita; does not reply to Violet; decides Violet
must live abroad; her coldness to Violet; and Violet’s re-launched marriage; and Violet’s relationship with Polignac; caricature in Broderie Anglaise; letters of devotion; and Violet’s novels; and Violet’s quasi-suitors; presents for Violet; finances Violet’s move to East Coker; presented with Violet’s bill

  Keppel, Hon. George, personality, and Violet; appearance; money; family history; and Sonia; employed by Lipton; shooting parties at Quidenham; and death of the King; stays at home; reunited with the girls; monthly visits to Munich; Grosvenor Street; Violet’s coming-out ball; organizes hospitality at Clingendaal; club; military service; and AK; Armistice celebrations; Violet’s wedding; wedding presents for Violet; asks Macready for help; in Amiens; Dansey on; Nile cruise; takes photographs; motor car; Aids to Memory; in USA; ill; death; his obituary

  Keppel, Sir Henry

  Keppel, Sonia, on AK; birth; Violet and; and her father; and Cassel; and King Edward; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; jewelled Easter eggs; at Duntreath; at Crichel; and AK; and Montgomery; death of woman in Ceylon; to Munich; ill and homesick; Grosvenor Street; on AK’s guests; writer; on Grenfell; World War I; sixteenth birthday party; asthma; Violet’s bridesmaid; and Cubitt; Lady Ashcombe and; engagement; and Denys; trousseau; to Clingendaal; wedding presents; pregnant; and Violet’s possessions; at Ombrellino; ball for Rosalind; AK stays with; marriage problems; birth of granddaughter; divorce; Ombrellino; rooted in Keppel family drama

  Keppel, Violet

  girlhood:

  paternity; Duntreath Castle; birth; letters to Vita; and Keppel; and King Edward; and Sonia; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; derides Biarritz; and Caesar; Christmas at Crichel; personality; life in Portman Square; French governess; in Paris; and Lady Sackville; and death of the King; does not enjoy Ceylon; in Munich; Grosvenor Street

  coming out and after:

  coming-out ball; dinner parties; engagement to Wellesley; in Ravello; contempt for hypocrisy of marriage; eschews Vita’s wedding; at Clingendaal; and Grenfell; World War I; Osbert Sitwell and; Slade School of Art; and Pat Dansey; appearance; personality; and Denys before marriage; Harold hates; attitude to adultery; asks Harold for help; Armistice celebrations; writes to Harold; on Trefusis family; panic at prospect of marriage; wedding; wedding presents

  as Mrs Trefusis:

  Paris; crosses Channel alone; ostracized; gambling; health problems; returns to Grosvenor Street; at Sonning-on-Thames; Sonia and fiancé call; despair; and Lady Sackville; socially isolated; Denys’s mother turns her away; sees a lawyer; disposal of her possessions; writes to Vita through Dansey; at Clingendaal; and Dansey; deteriorating appearance; returns to London; her personal tragedy; and Princesse de Polignac; and de Meyers; Nile cruise; Ombrellino; La Prisonnière; in USA; St Loup; Challenge; and Orlando; calls on Woolfs, Quennell on; state of mind; novelist; Jullian on her novels; quasi-suitors; Eiffel Tower costume ball; ageing; outbreak of World War II; escape from France; life at East Coker; journalism and broadcasting; life in wartime; personality; appearance; in France, hampered by money restrictions; and Sonia; furniture; fabrications; eccentric behaviour; quasi-fiancés; and James Pope-Hennessy; servants; brittle in body and mind; death; her will; epitaph

  and AK:

  on AK; the child and her mother; AK stays with; and Violet’s appearance; AK wants her to marry; AK announces the engagement; fears AK’s wrath; rows; proposed annulment; sees AK in Monte Carlo; ‘momentous interview’; feelings for AK; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; AK’s dictates; AK’s coldness; present for AK; discusses her feelings with AK; summer 1946; money matters; AK’s importance to

  and Denys Trefusis:

  honeymoon; tells of her relationship with Vita; married life; wants a separation; tells of elopement plan; between three perils, sex with Denys; anguish for both; motoring in France; rows; at Dower House; ‘momentous interview’ with AK; marriage worsens; in Paris; on Denys; and Denys’s last illness

  and Vita Sackville-West:

  doge’s ring; first meeting; falls in love; and Knole; education; declares her love; at Duntreath; jewels for Vita; in San Remo; Vita on; at Knole, on Vita; present for Vita; kisses; jealousy; Vita’s engagement; during the War; friendly meetings; her love for Vita; sexual intercourse; holidays in Cornwall; mutual infatuation; Rebellion, Eve and Julian; Paris; Riviera; Vita reneges; together during the week; urges Vita to leave Harold; Julian and Eve in France; plan the future; meets Vita and Denys in Calais; scenes in Amiens and Paris; denies having sex with Denys; Challenge, on marriage; four days at Dower House; two months in south of France; Vita’s lack of involvement; last direct letter to Vita; writes to Vita through Dansey; brief meeting at Berry’s dinner party; death of Lord Sackville; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita sends affectionate letters; Vita renounces relationship; they discuss writing their story; asks to stay at Sissinghurst; wants Vita to inherit St Loup; Vita at St Loup; Vita’s relationship with Woolf

  works:

  Broderie Anglaise; Don’t Look Round; Echo; The Hook in the Heart; Hunt the Slipper; Pirates at Play; Prelude to Misadventure; Sortie de Secours; Tandem

  Knoblock, Edward

  Knole, its importance to Vita; Vita’s mother; Violet and AK at; Vita’s wedding; World War I; Violet at; Woolf at; Vita at; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita’s burial

  Knollys, Charlotte

  Knollys, Francis, later Viscount Knollys

  Knollys, Sir William

  La Rochefoucauld, Comte Stanislas de

  Laking, Sir Francis

  Langtry, Edward

  Langtry, Emilie Charlotte, called Lillie

  Lansdowne, 5th Marquess of

  Lasteyrie, Comte Louis de

  Lavery, Sir John

  Lely, Sir Peter, portraits of Quidenham

  lesbianism

  Lipton, Sir Thomas

  Londonderry, Marchioness of

  Louise, Princess

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin

  McKenna, Lady Cecilia, née Keppel

  McKenna, David

  Manners, Lady Diana, see Cooper, Lady Diana

  Marlborough, Duchess of

  Marlborough, 9th Duke of

  Mary, Queen

  Massigli, René

  Matheson, Hilda

  Melba, Dame Nellie

  Mensdorff, Count

  Meyer, Baron Adolf de

  Meyer, Olga de

  Millais, Sir John Everett

  Mitford, Nancy

  Moiselle, Violet’s French governess, becomes Violet’s governess; and the King; with Violet in Paris; with Violet in Florence; death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; to Munich; critical of AK; ‘a sort of gaoler’

  Molyneux, Edward

  Montgomery, Watty

  Mordaunt, Sir Charles

  Mordaunt, Harriet

  Morley, Arthur

  Mortimer, Raymond

  Nannie, and death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; critical of AK; Grosvenor Street; Sonia’s wedding

  Nicolson, Benedict, birth; his godmother; Armistice celebrations; presents from Dansey; Vita writes about Violet; and Carritt; marriage

  Nicolson, Hon. Gwen

  Nicolson, Hon. Harold, later Sir Harold, doge’s ring; and Keppel; Vita meets; invitation from Vita; Vita on; unofficially engaged; Vita and; on Violet; history; personality; and Lady Sackville; military exemption; venereal infection; Vita’s and Violet’s holiday in Cornwall; and Violet; his solution; and Vita’s affair with Violet; and Vita’s and Violet’s Paris trip; homosexual affairs; Christmas 1918; Paris Peace Conference; writes to Vita; reparation of marriage; no sex between Vita and; to Amiens; scenes in Amiens and Paris between Vita and Violet; cocker spaniel for Vita; does not want Violet at Long Barn; buys a statue; and Vita’s affair with Dorothy Wellesley; holiday with Wellesleys; his marriage; and Raymond Mortimer; Pat Dansey and; stays with Scotts in Florence; Orlando; money

  Nicolson, Nigel

  Norfolk, 15th Duke of

  Northumberland, 8th Duke of

  Nouailles, Anna de />
  Ostrorog, Comte Jean

  Paget, Lady Florence

  Palewski, Gaston

  Paris, Violet in; Prince of Wales in; Violet and Vita in; liberation of; Violet returns to

  Parker-Bowles, Camilla

  Pepita

  Phillips, John

  Polignac, Armande de

  Polignac, Prince Edmond de

  Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de, and Violet; personality and appearance; marriages; Palazzo Polignac, Venice; patron of the arts; love of music; and Denys; lifestyle; Nile cruise; at Ombrellino; La Prisonniere; in USA; La Tour de St Loup; at East Coker; dines with Harold

  Poniatowski, Prince Josef

  Ponsonby, Sir Frederick

  Ponsonby, Ria

  Pope-Hennessy, James

  Portland, 6th Duke of

  Poulenc, Jean

  Proust, Marcel

  Pucci, Orazio, Marquis

  Quidenham Park

  Ravel, Maurice

  Reynaud, Paul

  Richards, Betty

  Robert III, King of Scotland

  Rolfe, Mr AK’s butler

  Rosenburg, Adolphus

  Rubens, Olive

  Rutland, Duchess of

  Sackville, 2nd Baron

  Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset

  Sackville-West, Charles

  Sackville-West, Lionel, later 3rd Baron Sackville; marries; and his wife; humiliation; and Olive Rubens; Christmas 1918; writes to Vita; death

  Sackville-West, Lionel the elder

  Sackville-West, Victoria, later Lady Sackville, excludes AK; at coronation; Violet on; history; early married life; Vita’s birth; Seery and; and Vita; capricious with money; eccentric behaviour; AK and; eschews Vita’s wedding; court case; extravagant expenditure; menopause; World War I; Sackville and; unhappy; and Violet; Armistice; attitude to homosexuals; and Vita’s affair with Violet; sends for Harold; on Denys and Harold to Amiens; Challenge; on Violet; Denys and; Vita’s unorthodox marriage; concern for grandsons; and Vita’s friendship with Dorothy Wellesley; and Dansey; and Geoffrey Scott; and Woolf; death of her husband; caricatured in Broderie Anglaise

  ackville-West, Hon. Vita, at coronation; and AK; Knole; birth; and Seery; and her mother; in Florence; and Rosamund Grosvenor; pleasures; appearance; attitude to society; affair with Dorothy Wellesley; wedding; and Ben; houses; and Denys; personality; Lady Carnock and; buys a statue; and Dorothy Wellesley; Italian holiday with Wellesleys; Pat Dansey and; homosexuality; attitude to her lovers; in love with Geoffrey Scott; Morning Post shares; and Virginia Woolf; death of her father; Orlando; Sissinghurst; and Carritt, averse to parties, dresses, social occasions, death