October 16, 2006
Robbo's not gonna like this
What, with his Royalist sympathies and all.
Tory.
Yips! from Robbo: What? You make it sound as if this is a bad thing to be....
Incidently, I recently read Antonia Fraser's biog Marie Antoinette: The Journey and would recommend it to anybody who's interested in learning more about the poor woman (Antoinette, of course, not Fraser). I think Fraser does a pretty fair job of throwing the "Let them eat cake" caricature crap overboard without falling into the camp of the adulators of St. Marie.
Posted by Steve-O at October 16, 2006 11:40 AM | TrackBackDid you know that Lady Fraser is the daughter of the Earl of Longford the niece of Anthony Powell and is married to Harold Pinter...As a Catholic, Lady Antonia caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her husband for playwright Harold Pinter and the satirical magazine Private Eye for some years routinely referred to her as "Lady Magnesia Freelove". Pinter's then-wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, spoke publicly of her distress at his abandonment of her and made cutting remarks about Fraser in the press, including the famous comment that "she has very big feet".
Posted by: Basil Seal at October 16, 2006 03:27 PM
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