Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne

The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption, and promiscuity in 1920s and 30s high society, focusing on Doris Delevingne and Valentine Browne's relationship. Lyndsy Spence explores their decadent society lives in detail.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 256 pages
\n Publication date: 10 April 2018
\n Publisher: The History Press Ltd
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The plot could have drawn inspiration from Evelyn Waughs Vile Bodies, a novel that satirizes the 'Bright Young Things' era of the 1920s and 1930s. However, unlike Waughs' work, The Mistress of Mayfair is a true-life tale of scandal, greed, corruption, and promiscuity at the heart of high society during that period. The story revolves around the cunning socialite Doris Delevingne and her ill-fated relationship with the gossip columnist Valentine Browne, Viscount Castlerosse.

Marrying each other in pursuit of the finer things in life, their unlikely union was tumultuous from the start, plagued by affairs (with a host of society figures, including Cecil Beaton, Diana Mitford, and Winston Churchill, to name but a few) on both sides. Eventually, their relationship devolved into one of London's most bitter and talked-about divorce battles.

In The Mistress of Mayfair, Lyndsy Spence delves into the rise and fall of their relationship, providing a revealing glimpse into their decadent society lives. The book offers fresh insight into some of the most prominent figures of the mid-twentieth century.

\n Weight: 290g\n
Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780750984249\n
Edition number: New ed\n