The Spectator, January 20th, 2007
SAFE HOUSES by David Pryce-Jones Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99, pp. 186, ISBN 9780955383304 . £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
Even as a boy Charles knew there was something false about his father Adrian Mainguard. Why?
Nobody else did. An internationally famed pianist and composer, blessed with Dionysian looks and a forehead Virginia Woolf described as 'like a bow window revealing his soul ... there was something god-like about him'. Benjamin Britten, Auden, Sackville-Wests and Bloomsburys, all chanted praises. He was married to Edie, the daughter of the chairman of VickersArmstron...
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