The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell

Author:Mary S. Lovell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books

* Monckton had served as legal adviser to Edward VIII at the time of the abdication.

† During her first marriage, as a young bride on a naval air base, she had witnessed several fatal flying accidents.

‡ The Duke immediately noticed that Randolphs spurs were upside down.

§ Later, although refusing to perform for the Nazis, Chevalier agreed to entertain French captives in exchange for the release of ten French POWs from the same camp where he was prisoner during the First World War. This story was misreported and he was accused of collaboration but cleared of all charges thanks to evidence given by Charles de Gaulle and Marlene Dietrich. Fie spent most of the war years in the unoccupied zone of France – anxious not to draw attention to himself because Nita was a Jew. He sheltered her family in his Paris apartment and after the war he and Nita married.

¶ The hotel never received a direct hit so the claim was not put to the test.

# Averell Harriman was President Roosevelt’s personal representative on shipping and supply questions. He inherited an immense fortune soon after graduating from Yale and was close friend of the Roosevelt family.

** Wintle lost an eye and a hand in the First World War, and spoke both French and German well enough to pass for a native of either country. He is now mostly known for a television biography, The Last Englishman, and a letter written by him to the Editor of The Times which read: ‘Sir, I have just written you a long letter. On reading it over, I have thrown it into the waste paper basket. Hoping this will meet with your approval, I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, AD Wintle’.

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