Born in 1932, the year Ghandi was arrested, to the seventh Earl of Longford and his countess wife, customarily making her Lady Antonia. She had the typical childhood for a titled girl, attending a series of prestigious boarding schools with cutesy names before playing debutante in the London Social Season.
The only job she ever had was working as an assistant at a publishing house. At some point she bought the place and turned it into a branch of the Orion Publishing Group. She puts her books out through these, though they don’t come off as books that had to be self-published.
Her first book was Mary, Queen of Scots, followed by several through catalogues about particular women’s strange and terrible lives in some ancient century and the fat freaks that ruled England from the Plantagenets on. She also has a few biographies; Cromwell, Charles II, and Marie Antoinette. Are they poppy? Yes, but they’re fine.
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