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Posted on August 11, 2021November 9, 2023

From the Archive Lesley Blanch & the Duchess of Windsor

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esley Blanch and the Duchess of Windsor
Lesley Blanch and the Duchess of Windsor at The Mill outside Paris

Lesley Blanch with the Duchess of Windsor at Le Moulin de la Tuilerie, originally an eighteenth-century mill, outside Paris. The twenty-six acre estate was acquired by the Duke and Duchess in 1952. They lived there until his death in 1972.

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Writers’ France: The Riviera | BBC Radio 4, Jan. 1998 | An overview of the Romantic Riviera of The Ballets Russes, Scott Fitzgerald, Somerset Maugham and Katherine Mansfield. Includes an interview with Lesley Blanch

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