![]() ![]() Neither does she disclose what she and Lucian Freud talked about during the intense months of three-hour sittings, at the artist's request, back in the late 1950s, for Woman in a White Shirt. So, what do we learn here that we didn't already know? Is the duchess about to rip aside the veils of discretion and tell us just what went on when she was asked to have dinner at the White House, alone with President Kennedy and two of his male chums? Or why, intriguingly, JFK decreed that he and the duchess must fly in separate sections of the same plane? ![]() Its successor is doubtless already in preparation. This memoir, like its cheery predecessors, should sell by the lorryload. And the duchess's Amazon readers adore her. A prime attraction of visiting Chatsworth remains, for the considerable number of regular visitors, the hope of catching a glimpse of the handsome, white-haired woman who threw her energies into turning a decrepit mausoleum into one of England's best-loved tourist attractions. ![]()
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