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With so many royals being forced to quarantine at home due to COVID-19, we’ve been treated to unprecedented glimpses into their homes. Spotted in Camilla’s Birkhall home office was this copy of ‘The Riviera Set’ by Mary S. Lovell.
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the heart of this was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château and brought together the likes of Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, the Windsors and two very saucy courtesans, Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes, who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his ‘wilderness years’ in the thirties.
After the War the story continued as the Château changed hands and Prince Aly Khan used it to entertain the Hollywood set, as well as launch his seduction of and eventual marriage to Rita Hayworth.
Here are more of Camilla’s Home products:
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Tom Parker Bowles ‘The Year of Eating Dangerously’ Book
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Tom Parker Bowles ‘Let’s Eat’ Book
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Tom McCarthy ‘Satin Island’ Book
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Susan Hill ‘The Shadows in the Street’ Book
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Susan Hill ‘The Risk of Darkness’ Book
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Simon Montefiore ‘Sashenka’ Book
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Simon Montefiore ‘Jerusalem’ Book
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Sean Aherne ‘Welcome to the Nuthouse’ Sign
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Sarah Hawkswood ‘Marked to Die’ Book
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Robert Hardman ‘Our Queen’ Book
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Rachel Kushner ‘The Mars Room’ Book
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Philippa Gregory ‘Tidelands’ Book
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Looking for some royally-approved books to add to your reading list?
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Yves Bonnefoy ‘Giacometti’ Book
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Women’s Institute ‘Within Living Memory’ Book
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Wayne Hammond ‘Art of the Lord of the Rings’ Book
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Wayne Hammond ‘Art of the Hobbit’ Book
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Vanity Fair’s ‘Hollywood’ Book
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Valentino ‘At the Emperor’s Table’ Book
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Usborne ‘Treasure Island’ Book
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Usborne ‘Tales of King Arthur’ Book
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Usborne ‘See Inside How Things Work’ Book
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Usborne ‘Puzzle Farm’ Book
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Usborne ‘Olivier Twist’ Book
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Usborne ‘Myths and Legends’ Book
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Looking for more royal office inspiration? Here are some other pieces
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Zaq ‘Dew’ Essential Oil Diffuser
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Women’s Institute ‘Within Living Memory’ Book
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Tim Walker ‘The Granny Alphabet’ Book
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Threshold ‘White Wood’ Paper Tray
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The Folio Society ‘Richard III’ Book
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Terry Wolsey ‘Elizabeth of Glamis’ Book
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Sugar Paper ‘The Desk’ Calendar
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Siri Pettersen ‘Evna’ Book
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Simon Welfare ‘Days of Majesty’ Book
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Samsung ’49-Inch Curved’ Monitor
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Robert Hughes ‘Late and Soon’ Book
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Roald Dahl ‘Memories with Food’ Book
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