Download or read book Bronwen Astor written by Peter Stanford and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronwen Astor has maintained silence over the Profumo scandal of 1963, out of respect for her dead husband's wishes and to protect his children. Now she feels the time has come to tell the truth about a period when she was in the international spotlight, a time that changed her life for ever.
Download or read book My Double Life 2 written by Nicholas Hagger and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Double Life 1 Nicholas Hagger told of his four years’ service and double life as an undercover British intelligence agent during the Cold War (there revealed for the first time). Lost in a dark wood like Dante following his encounters with Gaddafi’s Libya and the African liberation movements, he found Reality on a ‘Mystic Way’ of loss, purgation and illumination, perceived the universe as a unity and had 16 experiences of the metaphysical Light. In My Double Life 2 he continues the story. He received new powers, coped with fresh ordeals, acquired three schools, renovated a historic house, and had 76 further experiences of the metaphysical Light. He founded a new philosophy of Universalism and new approaches to contemporary history, international statecraft and world literature. He produced nearly 1,500 poems, over 300 classical odes, five verse plays, two poetic epics, over a thousand short stories – and 40 books that include innovative literary, historical and philosophical works. His vision of Universalism in seven disciplines is like a rainbow with seven bands overarching seven hills. He produced nearly 1,500 poems, over 300 classical odes, five verse plays, two poetic epics, over a thousand short stories – and 40 books that include innovative literary, historical and philosophical works. His vision of Universalism in seven disciplines is like a rainbow with seven bands overarching seven hills.
Download or read book David Astor written by Jeremy Lewis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential reading, admired and envied for the quality of its writers and for its trenchant but fair-minded views. Astor grew up at Cliveden, the country house on the Thames which his grandfather had bought when he turned his back on New York, the source of the family fortune. His liberal-minded father was a constant support, but his relations with his mother, Nancy, were always embattled. At Oxford he suffered the first of the bouts of depression that were to blight his life; a lost soul for much of the Thirties, he became involved in attempts to put the British Government in touch with the German opposition in the months leading up to the war. George Orwell had urged Astor to champion the decolonisation of Africa, and Nelson Mandela always acknowledged how much he owed to the Observer’s long-standing support. A generous benefactor to good causes, he helped to set up Amnesty International and Index on Censorship. A good man and a great editor, he deserves to be better remembered.
Download or read book My Double Life 1 written by Nicholas Hagger and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in a dark wood like Dante, Nicholas Hagger tells the story of his search for meaning, purpose and truth that took him to Iraq and Japan, and encounters with Zen and China’s Cultural Revolution, which he was the first to discover. In Libya, then a Cold-War battleground, he began four years’ service and a double life as an undercover British intelligence agent (here revealed for the first time). He witnessed Gaddafi’s Egyptian/Soviet-backed coup, and its terrifying aftermath tore into his personal life, plunged him into a Dark Night of the Soul and faced him with execution. He went on to serve in London as Prime Minister Edward Heath’s “unofficial Ambassador” to the African liberation movements at the height of Soviet and Chinese expansion in Africa during the Cold War. Despite being routinely followed by surveillance squads he found Reality on a ‘Mystic Way’ of loss, purgation and illumination. He now perceived the universe as a unity, and had 16 experiences of the metaphysical Light.
Download or read book Bronwen Astor Her Life and Times Text Only written by Peter Stanford and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since the Profumo scandal of the 1960s, the Astors’ own version of the events at Cliveden is told. Peter Stanford has been granted unprecedented access to Lady Astor, her private papers and her friends, as well as to many family members and key players in the drama.
Download or read book The Mistresses of Cliveden written by Natalie Livingstone and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a setting for misbehavior, intrigue, and passion—from its salacious, deadly beginnings in the seventeenth century to the 1960s Profumo Affair, the sex scandal that toppled the British government. Now, in this immersive chronicle, the manor’s current mistress, Natalie Livingstone, opens the doors to this prominent house and lets the walls do the talking. Built during the reign of Charles II by the Duke of Buckingham, Cliveden attracted notoriety as a luxurious retreat in which the duke could conduct his scandalous affair with the ambitious courtesan Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury. In 1668, Anna Maria’s cuckolded husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, challenged Buckingham to a duel. Buckingham killed Shrewsbury and claimed Anna Maria as his prize, making her the first mistress of Cliveden. Through the centuries, other enigmatic and indomitable women would assume stewardship over the estate, including Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney and illicit lover of William III, who became one of England’s wealthiest women; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the queen that Britain was promised and then denied; Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland, confidante of Queen Victoria and a glittering society hostess turned political activist; and the American-born Nancy Astor, the first female member of Parliament, who described herself as an “ardent feminist” and welcomed controversy. Though their privileges were extraordinary, in Livingstone’s hands, their struggles and sacrifices are universal. Cliveden weathered renovation and restoration, world conflicts and cold wars, societal shifts and technological advances. Rich in historical and architectural detail, The Mistresses of Cliveden is a tale of sex and power, and of the exceptional women who evaded, exploited, and confronted the expectations of their times. Praise for The Mistresses of Cliveden “Theatrical festivities, political jockeying and court intrigues are deftly described with a verve and attention to domestic comforts that show the author at her best. . . . [Livingstone’s] portraits of strenuous and assertive women who resisted subjection, sometimes deploying their sexual allure to succeed, on other occasions drawing on their husband’s wealth, are astute, spirited, and empathetic.”—The Wall Street Journal “Missing Downton Abbey already? This tome promises ‘three centuries of scandal, power, and intrigue’ and Natalie Livingstone definitely delivers.”—Good Housekeeping “Lively . . . The current chatelaine—the author herself—deserves no small credit for keeping the house’s legend alive. . . . Any of her action-filled chapters would merit a mini-series.”—The New York Times Book Review “Though the personal tales and tidbits are fascinating, and the sensational details of these women’s lives will intrigue Downton Abbey devotees, the real star of the story is Cliveden.”—Booklist “Lovers of modern English history and the scandals that infiltrated upper-crust society will find much to enjoy in this work.”—Library Journal
Download or read book Heaven A Traveller s Guide to the Undiscovered Country Text Only written by Peter Stanford and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries – and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.
Download or read book Television Personalities written by James Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely.
Download or read book If My Table Could Talk written by Michael Wynne-Parker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years the table has taken central place from cottage to palace, drawing around it families and friends to enjoy sustenance and conversation. Only in the present day has its dominance of the domestic scene declined due to the intrusion of television and the break up of traditional family life. Michael Wynne-Parkers life is full of interesting people some of whom are the main characters in this fascinating book. And they have a just one thing in common - they all sat, at least once, round his table - including such diverse personalities as Victor, 6th Marquess of Bristol, Hammond Innes, Brian Rix, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Dai Llewellyn and Jim Davidson. Famous names mingle with lesser known, but by no means less interesting, friends, each with a story or more to tell. Actors, soldiers, priests, poets, artists, politicians join with singers, writers, sportsmen, beautiful women and royalty. Some are witty, some amusing, some profound - all with their own story to tell. Their stories offer a glimpse into worlds of wealth, glamour, power and creativity. Throughout, however, a slowly emerging question arises - Is there a significance in events?
Download or read book It s About You written by Chris W. E. Johnson and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to understanding your magnificent multi-dimensional Self--so that you can begin living a fearless, fulfilling life of contentment. Why are you here in the physical world at this crucial and chaotic time for humanity? What if you were aware of your higher self's spiritual reasons for being here? What if you could fearlessly pursue those things that excite your passions without worrying about money or whether you are worthy of doing so? What does it take to fully express your Self? It's About You! Know Your Self is the first book in a trilogy that integrates profound insights from a wide variety of physical and nonphysical sources of knowledge into a set of experiential workbooks. The primary aim of the trilogy is to make the reader consciously aware of the subconscious "spiritual" impulses that steer one's experiences in life. Such awareness brings clarity on the purpose of our current lifetime and why our Essence (higher) self presents us with certain challenges along the way. Essentially (!) our Essence self has a few learning goals for this lifetime, all of which contribute to the overall expansion and evolution of our personal expression within Consciousness. Know Your Self, through its series of exercises, initiates a journey of gentle self-transformation that releases emotional and psychological obstructions on the way to consciously managing the key issues that affect our lives--self-worth, health, relationships, and our flow of abundance--enabling us to live a more fun-filled, altruistic way of life. In this newly edited, revised edition, you will discover the totality of your indivisible Self--from the fabulous resources of your Essence self, to the foibles, fears and wayward beliefs of your ego-self--and learn how to deal with your ego-self's challenges in a compassionate and forgiving manner. Know Your Self presents a new model of the Self, incorporating psychological aspects and "layers" to the Self offered in the Seth material and other channeled sources of wisdom. This new model allows the reader to understand better: the nature of your spiritual existence, how this provides the source energy for your physical existence, to feel more confident of your continued existence after physical death, and open a reconnection to the inner guidance of your Essence self. As the metaphysical character Seth reminds us:"The ego then, is only part of a much larger self, but because consciously you do not perceive the whole self you arbitrarily make [it] a unit from a truly indivisible identity, and call this the "I." You succeed in cutting off, in theory, one portion of the self from the whole self."Seth, in Roberts, J. (1998) The Early Sessions: Book 3 of The Seth Material. Manhasset, NY: New Awareness Network Inc. p.266. Know Your Self gives a clearer understanding of the root causes of the challenges and problematic events occurring in one's life--and crucially how to address such problems. A review of the first edition: "Our long dominant worldview of materialism is giving way in a shift in our individual and collective psyches awakening to a more spiritual knowing. Therefore, now more than ever before, we humans need teachers and guides grounded in an emerging truth we can trust. Johnson provides us here with an outstanding 21st-century metaphysical textbook to empower us to use more consciously our intention to change and enrich our lives and the reality we are manifesting."Professor Jon Klimo - author of Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources. Order your ego-self a copy now and begin awakening to your whole Self's magnificence.
Download or read book Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage written by Patrick W. Montague-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 3140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outcasts Outcast written by Peter Stanford and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Lord Longford
Download or read book Distortion and Love written by Professor Nigel Rapport and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ‘distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century painters and that art’s public reception. Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with loving detail but also the ‘memory-feelings’ which he felt were a ‘sacred’ part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision, how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An illustration, through Stanley Spencer’s story, of significant aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer’s work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in creativity, perception and interpretation.
Download or read book All the Rage written by Virginia Nicholson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions—and how it affects the female body. Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what colour lipstick we adore, what body shape is 'all the rage’. Thestory of female adornment from 1860- 1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long been fascinated by the way we women present ourselves – or are encouraged to present ourselves – to the world. ‘Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-cheeked, slouched or erect, according to the prevalent notions of beauty…’ Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion (1954), In this book we learn about rational dress, suffragettes' hats, the Marcel wave, the Gibson Girls, corsets and the banana skirt. At the centre of this story is the female body, in all its diversity – fat, thin, short, tall, brown, white, black, pink, smooth, hairy, wrinkly, youthful, crooked or symmetrical; and – relevant as ever in this context – the vexed issues of body image and bodily autonomy. We may even find ourselves wondering, whose body is it? In the hundred years this book charts, the western world saw the rapid introduction of new technologies like photography, film and eventually TV, which (for better and worse) thrust women – and female imagery – out of the private and into the public gaze.
Download or read book Five Sisters written by James Fox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal. Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller. At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain's first female MP, championing women's rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author's grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.
Download or read book The Tablet written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international Catholic weekly.
