Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as ...

Beginning tonight, customarily staid Masterpiece Theatre moves from the drawing room to the bedroom in a rip-roaring re-enactment of the scandalous early-20th-century love affair between the writers ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers, by Michael Holroyd, Chatto & Windus, ...

Biographer Holroyd is taking the maxim that history is written by the victors to task with his new tome, a slender, entertaining volume with a cast of characters typically relegated to the footnotes ...

Vita Sackville-West’s love affair with Violet Trefusis is one of the more notorious episodes of her colorful life. Writing in the TLS this week, Michael Holroyd shows how the fallout from this affair ...

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women ...

Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as ...

Long fascinated by the life story of Eve Fairfax, the fiancée of the old roué Ernest Beckett, Baron of Grimthorpe, and one-time muse to Auguste Rodin, the biographer Michael Holryod has produced a ...