Four Thousand Lives by Clare Ungerson

Author:Clare Ungerson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750958561
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

We took them [Nancy Astor and Ronald Tree MP] into the dining room and Lady Astor addressed a few words of encouragement to the men and received tumultuous applause. She walked out and they rose and bowed to her and one man to whom she spoke bowed and kissed her hand. It was all very pathetic.8

Nancy Astor clearly did not feel inclined to invite any of the refugees to her huge house and garden on the edge of the golf course overlooking the sea (it had fifteen bedrooms and she called it her ‘seaside cottage’9). This lack is striking because others in the upper class Sandwich set did. Lord and Lady Airedale invited thirty-two men to tea in early May. That said, they made certain that they kept a certain distance:

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