The historical mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox. Tickets are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged. For reservations book online at or call 41. Walk-ins will be accommodated as space allows. Reservations are required as seats are limited. He covered the first wedding of King Charles III, the funerals of Diana, the Queen Mother and Prince Philip as well as many other royal weddings. Vickers is often called to commentate at times when the Royal Family are in the news. Vickers has written two books about the Duchess, the second of which was updated in 2020 and released under the title, The Sphinx. In 1962 she was forcibly removed and placed in St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton. This once legendary beauty retreated to a farmhouse in Oxfordshire and eventually became a recluse. She rejected many suitors, only to marry the notoriously impoverished 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1921, an unsuccessful marriage that saw her sleeping with a gun under her pillow before he evicted her from Blenheim Palace in 1933. She destroyed her looks by having paraffin wax injected into her nose in pursuit of the perfect Grecian profile. A prominent figure from the Gilded Age, she had one of the most unusual lives of recent times-highly intelligent, well read, she was loved by many of the most interesting men of the 20th century, including Proust, Rodin, Anatole France, Bernard Berenson and many English and Italian dukes.īut, as in Aesop’s Fables, life did not run smoothly. His lecture tells the dramatic story of Gladys, from her heyday in Paris through her Bohemian life, from the trials of Blenheim to her long years as a recluse. His presentation on Sunday March 5th at 3:30PM at Ventfort Hall will be followed by a champagne tea. But the current tumult is nothing new for British aristocracy as Hugo Vickers, well-known biographer, lecturer, broadcaster and an acknowledged expert on the royal family, will detail in a talk about Gladys Deacon, the second wife of the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Prince Harry has done a marvelous job of focusing attention on the Royal Family and its various dysfunctions.
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