The acid-tongued ambassadress
The life and writings of the indomitable Lady Paget at the courts of imperial Europe
“I always see the faults of my friends,” writes Walburga, Lady Paget, in the introduction to her 1923 two-volume memoir Embassies of Other Days. “But I like their faults and I mention them as it adds…
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