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In 1890 Victoria married her first cousin Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. Their daughter, born in 1892, was the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West . The family lived mainly at Knole House , an estate that had been in the Sackville family for centuries.
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville.Vita's mother, circa 1885. Victoria Mary Sackville-West — called Vita, to distinguish her from her mother — was born on 9 March 1892 at Knole, the Kent home of Sackville-West's aristocratic ancestors.
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.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The West family is a noble family in the United Kingdom and a prominent family in the history of the U.S. state of Virginia. The Sackville-West branch is descended from George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, originally a West who added the surname of his wife, Elizabeth Sackville. The most famous is Vita Sackville-West.
Violet Trefusis (née Keppel; 6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English socialite and author.She is chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West that both women continued after their respective marriages.
Shane MacGowan was “vibrant and beautiful” and “determined to live” only a few days before his death aged 65, his wife has said. The Pogues frontman died at 3am on Thursday 30 November ...
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.