Lois Sturt, Wild Child
: A Glance at Hon. Lois Ina Sturt, Viscountess Tredegar
New Book By William Cross : Now Available £8.00 Post Free UK
From the age of the flapper, with vivid yarns of those Bright Young Things comes the poignant
tale of British high society wild child, the Honourable Lois Ina Sturt, a
dazzling, single minded,one-off personality who was dead by the age of 37.
Sibling of the enigmatic, hedonistic peer Lord ‘Naps’ Alington, the family pile
was the magical Crichel Estate in Dorset. The blond, tubercular Naps was matched only in devil may care attitude by
his younger sister Lois, a delectable, quixotic creature,an accomplished
actress and dancer, a clever painter who studied at the Slade School of Art and
had her own art studio in Chelsea. She also became a successful race horse
owner and breeder of Great Danes. But Lois’ story is largely untold. She was
deemed “fast” and “high-spirited”: Lois wanted to knock the stuffing out of
convention and achieved this by engaging in several long love affairs,
generally with older, married men. She was for four years the lover of the much
older Reggie Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, and an intimate around the string
of unapproved-of good-time girls chasing Prince George, the ill-fated Duke of
Kent. In 1928 Lois entered into an arranged, madcap marriage de convenance with
the homosexual Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan, heir to the Viscount Tredegar and
died suddenly in Budapest in 1937, a victim of long years of alcohol abuse and
insane slimming treatments. Author of previous titles on several forgotten
Society figures of the 1920s and 1930s, William Cross presents all the humorous
anecdotes, coupled with fascinating, yet often sad facts on the boisterous life
and times of Evan Morgan’s first wife Lois, Viscountess Tredegar. Incredibly,
Lois may boast a blood connection to the current heir to the British
throne. ISBN 10 1-905914-31-8 and ISBN
13 978-1-905914-31-9
Published by William P. Cross through Book Midden Publishing 58 Sutton Road,
Newport, Gwent NP19 7JF, United Kingdom £8.00
Post Free UK until 31 December 2014
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Labels: Crichel, Evan Lord Tredegar, Lois Sturt, Lois Sturt Wild Child, Tredegar House, Viscount Tredegar, Viscountess Tredegar, William Cross
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