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    The gay duchess

    Jun 28, 2023 3 minutes

    Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: A Life of Dorothy Wellesley

    By Jane Wellesley

    Sandstone Press £30

    The story of the Royal Family – George VI, the Little Princesses and Queen Elizabeth – all having the giggles when listening to T S Eliot read from The Waste Land is well known.

    What I had not appreciated until reading this wonderful biography was that this occurred during a gala evening, at which poets aimed to raise money

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