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VIOLET KEPPEL TREFUSIS
(1894 - 1972)
SOCIALITE
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Alice
Keppel with
daughter
Violet |
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British postal officials delayed issuing this booklet fearing further
embarrassment
in
connection with the scandals involving Queen Elizabeth's royal family. Alice
Keppel, mistress
of
King Edward VIII, is the great grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Violet
Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West's passionate relationship shocked
British
society, which tolerated mistresses but frowned upon lesbianism.
Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983
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