Grace: The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness

I have written about it all – my incredibly rich little life: so many precious memories committed to diaries, letters and journals, and stored in a large trunk under my bed. Perhaps one or other of my dear children or grandchildren may find them an interesting record – of a rarefied childhood in old Queen Victoria's reign, a surprising marriage to a major celebrity from a prestigious family who swept me up into his worldwide travels, a young widow left with two young children to support at a time when there were so few working opportunities available to women; of two cataclysmic world wars in which I played a not insignificant part, of a lonely bedsit existence, and now, at last, in these so-called "swinging sixties", promotion from impecunious companion to lady of the manor at last.