Friday 7 November 2014

Review of Anne de Courcy's book in Daily Mail

Interesting review by Peter Lewis on Anne de Courcy's latest book about Margot Asquith... pity Anne did not read my book before she published!
The Mail's heading is :"The love triangle at Number 10 that could have cost us the war" .. Yes Asquith's philandering nearly did .. but no mention of sex other than the fact that Asquith was keen on it after Margot banned him from her bedroom (after many failed pregnancies).. Anne misses the point that Asquith was more than a groper and would take a lady's hand to his erect instrument if she dared sit beside him!! ..Poor Venetia she did stand a chance of repelling this awful man ... in my view he was another Jimmy savile.
Anne also wonders about his daughter Violet Asquith and her lesbian tendencies .. I also wonder why she was SO keen to defend her father .. ..

1 comment:

  1. Ms. Neate,

    Just finished reading your fascinating book. As a long-time amateur family historian/researcher with family roots in the Northwich, Weaverham, Anderton, Winnington areas of Cheshire my attraction to your work was exponentially increased. Since my elderly mother's and father's last years in America were blighted by the existence of a psychopath who married into the family (in the manner of your step-father -- though thankfully not to such an amazing extent) a further dimension was added to my interest in your research.

    You mention several times in the book that there were more letters slated to be released to the public in 2015. Have you had a chance to view these additional documents yet? If so, is there enough of interest to be found to lead to a second edition of your book?

    Finally, one of my non-direct family research projects has to do with a Samuel Trude Tripp, a London dentist/inventor in the 1920s and 1930s (as well as a WWI RAF officer) who, with his New Zealand wife at the time, seemed to be quite into the London social whirl (or so I am told) in the 1920 to 1932 period. His second wife, it would seem, was something to do with MI5 or MI6 during WWII. Have you, by any chance, come across this name in any of your research? Samuel T. Tripp's first wife's maiden name was Beatrice Eva Edmonds. (Thought I would toss that out there as, like you and your research, I have over the last couple of years found snippets of Tripp/Edmonds/Jauncey family history in the most unlikely places.

    Regards, Steve Flora, Canberra, Australia ... floras@iinet.net.au

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