Mitford, Nancy
Moiselle, Violet’s French governess, becomes Violet’s governess; and the King; with Violet in Paris; with Violet in Florence; death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; to Munich; critical of AK; ‘a sort of gaoler’
Molyneux, Edward
Montgomery, Watty
Mordaunt, Sir Charles
Mordaunt, Harriet
Morley, Arthur
Mortimer, Raymond
Nannie, and death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; critical of AK; Grosvenor Street; Sonia’s wedding
Nicolson, Benedict, birth; his godmother; Armistice celebrations; presents from Dansey; Vita writes about Violet; and Carritt; marriage
Nicolson, Hon. Gwen
Nicolson, Hon. Harold, later Sir Harold, doge’s ring; and Keppel; Vita meets; invitation from Vita; Vita on; unofficially engaged; Vita and; on Violet; history; personality; and Lady Sackville; military exemption; venereal infection; Vita’s and Violet’s holiday in Cornwall; and Violet; his solution; and Vita’s affair with Violet; and Vita’s and Violet’s Paris trip; homosexual affairs; Christmas 1918; Paris Peace Conference; writes to Vita; reparation of marriage; no sex between Vita and; to Amiens; scenes in Amiens and Paris between Vita and Violet; cocker spaniel for Vita; does not want Violet at Long Barn; buys a statue; and Vita’s affair with Dorothy Wellesley; holiday with Wellesleys; his marriage; and Raymond Mortimer; Pat Dansey and; stays with Scotts in Florence; Orlando; money
Nicolson, Nigel
Norfolk, 15th Duke of
Northumberland, 8th Duke of
Nouailles, Anna de
Ostrorog, Comte Jean
Paget, Lady Florence
Palewski, Gaston
Paris, Violet in; Prince of Wales in; Violet and Vita in; liberation of; Violet returns to
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Pepita
Phillips, John
Polignac, Armande de
Polignac, Prince Edmond de
Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de, and Violet; personality and appearance; marriages; Palazzo Polignac, Venice; patron of the arts; love of music; and Denys; lifestyle; Nile cruise; at Ombrellino; La Prisonniere; in USA; La Tour de St Loup; at East Coker; dines with Harold
Poniatowski, Prince Josef
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick
Ponsonby, Ria
Pope-Hennessy, James
Portland, 6th Duke of
Poulenc, Jean
Proust, Marcel
Pucci, Orazio, Marquis
Quidenham Park
Ravel, Maurice
Reynaud, Paul
Richards, Betty
Robert III, King of Scotland
Rolfe, Mr AK’s butler
Rosenburg, Adolphus
Rubens, Olive
Rutland, Duchess of
Sackville, 2nd Baron
Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset
Sackville-West, Charles
Sackville-West, Lionel, later 3rd Baron Sackville; marries; and his wife; humiliation; and Olive Rubens; Christmas 1918; writes to Vita; death
Sackville-West, Lionel the elder
Sackville-West, Victoria, later Lady Sackville, excludes AK; at coronation; Violet on; history; early married life; Vita’s birth; Seery and; and Vita; capricious with money; eccentric behaviour; AK and; eschews Vita’s wedding; court case; extravagant expenditure; menopause; World War I; Sackville and; unhappy; and Violet; Armistice; attitude to homosexuals; and Vita’s affair with Violet; sends for Harold; on Denys and Harold to Amiens; Challenge; on Violet; Denys and; Vita’s unorthodox marriage; concern for grandsons; and Vita’s friendship with Dorothy Wellesley; and Dansey; and Geoffrey Scott; and Woolf; death of her husband; caricatured in Broderie Anglaise
ackville-West, Hon. Vita, at coronation; and AK; Knole; birth; and Seery; and her mother; in Florence; and Rosamund Grosvenor; pleasures; appearance; attitude to society; affair with Dorothy Wellesley; wedding; and Ben; houses; and Denys; personality; Lady Carnock and; buys a statue; and Dorothy Wellesley; Italian holiday with Wellesleys; Pat Dansey and; homosexuality; attitude to her lovers; in love with Geoffrey Scott; Morning Post shares; and Virginia Woolf; death of her father; Orlando; Sissinghurst; and Carritt, averse to parties, dresses, social occasions, death
and Violet Keppel:
in Florence; doge’s ring; first meeting; visits to Portman Square; Violet declares her love; at Duntreath; Violet kisses her; warns Violet to be true; declines her invitation; on Violet; at Knole; Violet’s jealousy; present for Violet; Violet at Long Barn; sex; love affair; and Violet’s probable marriage; Julian and Eve; at Grosvenor Street; ‘Julian clothes’; autobiographical ‘confession’; in France; consents to elope with Violet; Violet’s wedding; tells Violet she has reneged; together during the week; emotional dilemma; they plan to leave England; agree to elope; extracts herself from responsibility for Violet; in Amiens; considers Violet has betrayed her; questions Violet and Denys about sex; sexual jealousy; wants her to come to England; in Avignon; loses Violet’s ring; at the Dower House; reluctantly with Violet; their love ‘debased and corrupt’; telegram for Violet’s birthday; and Vita’s affair with Dansey; refuses to see Violet; brief meeting at Berry’s dinner party; St Loup; affectionate letters; renounces relationship; they discuss writing their story; at Sissinghurst; reluctance to have Violet to stay; Ombrellino
and Harold Nicolson:
first meeting; her invitation to; describes him to Violet; unofficially engaged; marriage; his venereal infection; writes to him; love letters to Harold; in Paris; reparation of marriage; cocker spaniel from Harold; he summons her home; her affection for him; reassures him; confides homosexual affairs to him
works:
Challenge; The Dragon in Shallow Waters; The Edwardians; Heritage; Orchard and Vineyard
Salisbury, 4th Marquess of
Sandringham
Scey-Montbéliard, Prince Louis de
Schiff, Jacob
Scott, Geoffrey
Scott, Sir John Murray (Seery), and Victoria Sackville-West; wealth; his Paris apartment; death; bequest
Scott, Sybil
Sert, José Maria
Shand, Annabel
Shand, Camilla see also Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Simpson, Wallis, later Duchess of Windsor
Sinclair, Sir Archibald
Singer, Paris
Sitwell, Edith
Sitwell, Sir George
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, on AK’s Grosvenor Street house; adores AK; and Violet; at Knebworth
Somerset, Lord Arthur
Soveral, Marquis Luis de
Stavordale, Lord, later 6th Earl of Ilchester
Stephenson, Henry Frederick
Strang, William
Sturt, Gerard
Terré, Helen
Torrigiani, Marchesa
Trefusis, Beatrice
Trefusis, Betty
Trefusis, Denys Robert, family background; war service; writes to Violet; appearance; suggests talking to Vita; proposes; in Paris; AK and; promises never to displease Violet; personality; interest in Russia; ill; letter to Vita; agreement with Violet over sex; warns Violet; Military Cross; Violet tells him of her relationship with Vita; honeymoon; wants a separation; in sympathy with suicide; indifferent to Violet’s movements; and Vita; sex with Violet; returns to London; to Amiens; anguish for Violet and; motoring in France with Violet; terms for divorce; rows with Violet; asks Violet for trust; discharge from army; Violet’s attitude to; talks of suicide; threatens to dissolve marriage; Sonia and fiancé call; marriage worsens; at Clingendaal; leaves Violet; applies for legal separation; drops legal proceedings; with Violet in Paris; affair with Russian model; and Princesse de Polignac; interest in music; at Ombrellino; condemns Bolshevism; shooting; La Prisonnière; in USA; revisits Belgian battlefields; death; Sonia and
Trefusis, Kerr
Trefusis, Mitty
Vertova, Luisa
Vicky, see Frederick of Prussia, Crown Princess
Victoria, Queen, and Prince of Wales; power; and Albert; death of Albert; and Princess Alexandra; and Prince of Wales’s wedding; and Princess of Wales; ‘invisible’
Victoria, Princess
Vincent, Lady Helen
Voigt,
