Alice Keppel

Alice Keppel strongly disapproved of the relationship between Violet and Vita for many reasons, including the threat posed by the growing scandal over it to Sonia Keppel 's upcoming marriage into a staunchly conservative English family.

She was born into an affluent and socially prominent British family with links to the nobility, which made game of contemporary moral codes in private while upholding them in public. She first rebelled against the...

She died in her mother 's bed. In keeping with her request, her ashes were scattered over her mother's grave in Florence, and at her own home, St Loup.

VT 's first novel written and published in English, Tandem, dedicated to her mother , was brought out by Heinemann .

VT 's acquaintance Nancy Mitford suggested that VT should call this book Here Lies Madame Trefusis. In a letter of July 1941, Vita Sackville-West told Trefusis that she ought to dedicate this book...

In March 1919 VT gave in to her mother 's wishes and agreed to marry Denys Trefusis , a Major in the Royal Horse Guards serving in Belgium, whom Violet met when he returned...

Because the Princesse was wealthy, well-connected, and discreet, Alice Keppel had no objection to this affair.

VT 's mother, Alice Keppel , died from liver sclerosis in Florence.

VT 's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel , was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons) and William Edmonstone at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Alice married George Keppel in 1891, but...

Sonia Rosemary Keppel , VT 's only sibling, was born in 1900. Sonia was also a writer. At thirteen she wrote a novel about a loveless marriage: it was burned by her mother ...

In Don't Look Round, she remembers that the idea of matrimony crept insidiously into our conversation, because Osbert felt a schoolboy adulation for Mrs Keppel , while Violet was infatuated both with Renishaw...

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

Over three hundred guests attended the coming-out ball of Violet Keppel (later VT ) at 16 Grosvenor Street, which her mother, Alice Keppel , coordinated with military precision.

VT , like Alice Keppel , spent part of the war at endless parties, even if in wartime conditions none of them could compete with her parties at the Eiffel Tower. Her re-entry...