Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as ...

Beginning tonight, customarily staid Masterpiece Theatre moves from the drawing room to the bedroom in a rip-roaring re-enactment of the scandalous early-20th-century love affair between the writers ...

Vita Sackville-West’s love affair with Violet Trefusis is one of the more notorious episodes of her colorful life. Writing in the TLS this week, Michael Holroyd shows how the fallout from this affair ...

Even her most implacable critics admit that Camilla Parker Bowles has been the soul of discretion about her 25-year affair with the Prince of Wales, the heir to the British throne. Discretion must be ...

Biographer Holroyd is taking the maxim that history is written by the victors to task with his new tome, a slender, entertaining volume with a cast of characters typically relegated to the footnotes ...

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author. She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women ...

Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as ...