At his side is his brewing-heiress wife, Lady Honor Guinness, daughter of the staggeringly rich Earl of Iveagh. ![]() Our flamboyant host – and the man recording this extravaganza in his raffish, snobbish, indiscreet and utterly compelling diaries – is the flashy American-born bisexual and social climber supreme, Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon MP, a man who described himself as being ‘riveted by lust, bibelots, furniture and glamour, society and jewels’. Next to come are Harold Balfour, MP for Thanet Wallis Simpson, without her cuckolded husband, Ernest and shortly after, her paramour, King Edward VIII, who, exactly six months later, will give up the throne in order to marry her. Cabinet minister Leslie Hore-Belisha and Barbie Wallace, the glamorous daughter of society architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, appear first, quickly followed by Prince George, Duke of Kent, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. ![]() Guests are about to arrive for a lavish dinner in London’s most fashionable quarter, Belgravia.
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