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The Riviera Set
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived partied bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960 At the heart of this was the amazing Maxine Elliott the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut who built the beautiful art deco Chateau and brought together the likes of Noel Coward the Aga Khan the Windsors and two very saucy courtesans Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his 'wilderness years' in the thirtiesAfter the War the story continued as the Chateau changed hands
and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set as well as launch his seduction of and eventual marriage to Rita HayworthMary Lovell tells her story of high society behaviour with tremendous brio and relish and this book has all the charm and fascination of her bestselling The Mitford Girls and The Churchills
and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set as well as launch his seduction of and eventual marriage to Rita HayworthMary Lovell tells her story of high society behaviour with tremendous brio and relish and this book has all the charm and fascination of her bestselling The Mitford Girls and The Churchills
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