Bronwen Astor: Her Life and Times

By Peter Stanford

Book Overview

For the first time since the Profumo scandal of the 1960s, the Astors' own version of the events at Cliveden is told. Peter Stanford has been granted unprecedented access to Lady Astor, her private... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006388590
• ISBN13: 9780006388593
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Well done.

Skillful study of a British pseudo-aristocrat and fundamentalist Christian eccentric, Bronwen Viscountess Astor. It includes excellent descriptions of "modern" living in one of England's last stately homes (Cliveden), which is now a super-luxury hotel. However, the author's sympathy toward this unstable liberal elite, unseated by the notorious Profumo scandal, is totally misplaced. The 1960's Paris supermodel, obscenely wealthy widow and psychotherapist of questionable repute remains a poster-girl for what destroyed Great Britain: Its shallow, egocentric and vicious upper class.