THE PRINCE AND THE LILLIE. THE STORY OF LILLIE LANGTREE - THE GREATEST INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY OF HER DAY. - Hardcover

The Prince & the Lily : The Story of Lillie Langtry, the Greatest International Beauty of Her Day [subject: Langtry, Lillie, 1853-1929. ; Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910. ]

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition ; 352 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN: 0698106105; 9780698106109; National Library: 008955287 LCCN: 74-79684 ; LC: PN2598.L23; DA567 .B7; Dewey: 792/.028/0924; B ; OCLC: 1228582 ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; red and beige boards, in pictorial dustjacket ; ". the life of Lillie Langtry, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage who goes on to become one of the most sought after actresses in Britain and the United States, famous for her beauty and infamous for her scandals." ; "The prince was Edward, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, despair of his royal mother, lover of fast horses, high stakes and beautiful women. The Lily was Mrs Lillie Langtry, tediously married, and newly arrived from Jersey, whose portrait by Millais turned her almost overnight into one of the most sought after professional beauties in London. Their affair, played out over three decades, set the unbuttoned tone of London Society. In The Prince and the Lilly, James Brough draws a spirited portrait of Queen Victoria as the autocratic matriarch. He also captures the glittering, quarrelling Malborough House set who surrounded her eldest, least satisfactory son, and the evanescent world of the London theatre. Above all, in the portrait of Lillie, he makes an absorbing study of a beautiful, ambitious and formiddable woman, who was a phenomenon of the age." ; inspiration for the BBC television series ; VG/VG. Book. Artikel-Nr. 007384

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