John Martin-Robinson

From Edwardian idyll to meetings with Nehru: the life of Lady Ursula D’Asbo

A review of The Girl with the Widow’s Peak, by Lady Ursula d’Abo, with a foreword by John Julius Norwich. A very English tale of 20th-century upper-class comings and goings

Ursula, photographed by Cecil Beaton on the eve of the second world war 
issue 05 July 2014
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  • The Girl with the Widow’s Peak: The Memoirs

    Lady Ursula d’Abo (with a foreword by John Julius Norwich)

    D’Abo Publications (distributed by Loose Chippings), pp. 192

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