“I first met Winston Churchill in the early summer of 1906 at a dinner party to which I went as a very young girl. Our hostess was Lady Wemyss and I remember that Arthur Balfour, George Wyndman, Hilaire Belloc and… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, Stafford and Lansdowne House—had not yet been converted into museums, hotels and flats, and there we danced through the long summer… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share
“The world of 1906...was a stable and a civilized world in which the greatness and authority of Britain and her Empire seemed unassailable and invulnerably secure. In spite of our reverses in the Boer War it was assumed unquestioningly that we should always emerge "victorious, happy and glorious" from any conflict. There were no doubts about the permanence of our… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share
Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed. — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“I first met Winston Churchill in the early summer of 1906 at a dinner party to which I went as a very young girl.… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
