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Violet Keppel, 1919, William Bruce Ellis Ranken. Born Violet Keppel, she was the daughter of Alice Keppel, who was married to George Keppel, a son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. Members of the Keppel family thought her biological father was William Beckett, subsequently 2nd Baron Grimthorpe, a banker and MP for Whitby. [1]
Portrait of a Marriage is a British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson. Based on the biography of the same name by Nigel Nicolson, it features Janet McTeer as Vita, and Cathryn Harrison as Violet.
Sackville-West continued to receive devoted letters from her lover Violet Keppel. She was deeply upset to read of Keppel's engagement to Major Denys Trefusis. [15]: 131 Her response was to travel to Paris to see Keppel and persuade her to honour their commitment. Keppel, depressed and suicidal, did eventually marry her fiancé, under pressure ...
Alice Keppel with her daughter Violet in 1899, reproduced on a Royal Mail stamp issued in 1995. On 1 June 1891, at the age of 23, she married the Honourable Lt Col George Keppel, son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle. He was four years older than Alice and was serving as a soldier in the British Army at the time of their marriage.
The book relates to Sackville-West's complicated marriage to writer and politician Harold Nicolson.Two chapters are written by Sackville-West. They are centred on herself and her passion for Violet Trefusis for whom she abandoned Harold Nicolson, Vita's bisexual husband and her two children, Nigel and Ben.
Dowager Countess Violet Crawley died in Downton Abbey: A New Era, but the upcoming third movie will still pay tribute to the late Maggie Smith. Smith died at age 89 on September 27, not long after ...
Violet Trefusis, née Keppel (1894–1972), English writer and socialite; Fictional. Miss Emily Trefusis, amateur detective in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie; Professor Donald Trefusis (1921–2008), professor at the University of Cambridge, created by Stephen Fry
Portrait of a Marriage (1990) – British biographical drama miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson [61]