Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) & Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 & probably the grandest & most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon`s determination to control every aspect of his daughters` lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast & glittering world of the Twenties & Thirties. Irene, intensely musical & a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia (` Cimmie`) married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra (` Baba`), the youngest & most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales`s best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie`s early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long & passionate affair with Mosley & a liaison with Mussolini`s ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, & the arrival of Wallis Simpson & the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at `the Dorch` (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene & Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.