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The Cunards of Nevill Holt: A talk with Anne De Courcy

Anne de Courcy is one of Britain’s most acclaimed biographers and social historians, known for her vivid portrayals of high society, politics and empire in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

A former Fleet Street journalist and feature writer, she is the author of numerous bestsellers, including The Viceroy’s Daughters, The Fishing Fleet, The Husband Hunters and Chanel’s Riviera, and brings a lifetime’s research and storytelling experience to the extraordinary saga of the Cunards.

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Date: Saturday 20 June | 12:30 - 13:30

Genre: Arts, Culture and Literature

Location: Chapel

Duration: 1 hour including Q&A

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The Cunards of Nevill Holt, a talk with Anne De Courcy

Anne de Courcy will explore the Cunard family and their rich connections with Nevill Holt, the country house they bought in 1876 and which later passed to Sir Bache Cunard, third baronet and grandson of the founder of the Cunard Shipping Line. His sophisticated, city‑loving wife Maud – who later renamed herself Emerald after her favourite gemstones – was an unlikely chatelaine of this grand house at the heart of foxhunting country, so central to her husband’s life. Their daughter Nancy, the subject of Anne’s book Five Love Affairs and a Friendship, turned her back on this world altogether, embracing instead the radical intellectual and artistic life of Left Bank Paris.

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