Ottoline goes to Ashcombe

 
 July 21, 1933
Edith Olivier takes Ottoline to visit Ashcombe only to find that ‘common little demi-mondaine’ Doris Castlerosse staying, during the time she and Cecil Beaton were having an affair,  
Lord Berniers looks on.

page from Ottoline's scrapbook-found at the NPG here


3 comments:

  1. Oh dear, that will not do!!

    xoxo
    Karena
    The Arts by Karena

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  2. The story goes that the dalliance was intended to make Beaton's 'true love' Peter Watson, American heir to a margarine fortune, jealous. Lord Castlerosse, gossip columnist for the Daily Mail, was reported to say on seeing his wife with Beaton in a restaurant, "I never knew Doris was a lesbian."
    _ The Devoted Classicist

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    1. John, thank you for adding to the story. It was just another bit of Beaton's Circus theme -Juggling- at Ashcombe!

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