Final Day: SPRING SALE 📚 Buy 3+ Books | Get 25% Off

The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Snowdon, Anne De Courcy

Snowdon

Anne De Courcy

'The most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times' Sunday Telegraph
'Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day' Evening Standard

How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.

Written with exclusive access to Snowdon and the people closest to him, this book uncovers the real man and his times. Addressing the facts behind the myths - the secret courtship of Margaret, the love child born just weeks after the royal marriage, the affairs on both sides, the suicide of one mistress and the birth of an illegitimate son to another - this balanced yet no-holds-barred account of Snowdon's life is essential reading for fans of The Crown and Ma'am Darling.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Phoenix
  • Publish Date: Jun 11st, 2009
  • Pages: 456
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.30in - 1.30in - 1.15lb
  • EAN: 9780753825877
  • Categories: • Royalty• Artists, Architects, Photographers

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Change, Mary Gabriel
Book Cover for: Piet Mondrian: A Life, Hans Janssen
Book Cover for: On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Laura Cumming
Book Cover for: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, Brad Gooch
Book Cover for: Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, Christopher Bonanos
Book Cover for: Letters to Gwen John, Celia Paul
Book Cover for: Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time, Jenny Uglow
Book Cover for: Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time, Jenny Uglow
Book Cover for: Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays, Ingrid Sischy
Book Cover for: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil, Tina Brown
Book Cover for: de Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens
Book Cover for: What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicole Rudick
Book Cover for: Monet: The Restless Vision, Jackie Wullschläger
Book Cover for: The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers
Book Cover for: What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon, Philip Gefter

About the Author

Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer and journalist. In the 1970s she was Woman's Editor on the London Evening News and in the 1980s she was a regular feature-writer for the Evening Standard. She is also a former feature writer and reviewer for the Daily Mail. Her recent books include THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS and DEBS AT WAR.


Go to www.annedecourcy.com for more information.

More books by Anne De Courcy

Book Cover for: The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Chanel's Riviera, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: The Fishing Fleet, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Snowdon: The Biography, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Debs at War: 1939-1945, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: 1939: The Last Season, Anne De Courcy
Book Cover for: Margot at War, Anne De Courcy

Praise for this book

How refreshing to read a biography in which the author is half in love with her subject. There are none of the usual patronising putdowns, envious backbiting or mean-spirited cavilling in Anne de Courcy's portrait of the Earl of Snowdon--Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Times
The most sensational book on the Royal Family in recent times--Sunday Telegraph
[A] juicy biography ... it is impossible here to convey the combination of high society and low morals, of firghtfully good taste and awful cheese that de Courcy has managed to dish up--Observer
Has anyone not slept with Lord Snowdon? The priapic Earl's multi-layered love life is the dominant theme of this chatty and penetrating biography, packed as it is with love affairs, love-children ... and love-struck mistresses, often several at one time ... Snowdon makes a glamorous, capricious, selfish and surprisingly philanthropic subject for this lively account of a man and his era--Daily Mail Summer Reading
Offers a fascinating insight into not just his life but the social mores of the day--Evening Standard
Step forward, Snowdon. You're nicked ... Full of eye-popping revelations--Mail on Sunday
[A] commendably unvarnished portrait of a charismatic, contradictory individual--Good Book Guide
An onslaught of revelation, a dizzyingly switchback ride of mixed emotions, pomp and sleaze ... very true to life--Duncan Fallowell, Daily Telegraph
Offers unprecedented insight into the life of Princess Margaret's husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones. Anne de Courcy spoke with Lord Snowdon for the book (along with several others close to him), and it's a no-holds-barred look at both his art and his often-scandalous relationships--Town & Country, 18 Books About the Royal Family