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The Lord of Day Light - a splendid biography of a complex, many-sided personality of immense charm - Rated
Just before I got this wonderful biography I was presented with one of the book on the photographs of Lord Snowdon - not my first one - and could learn about and admire the Snowdon style over the years. The photos show a lot about the artist Snowdon and his unique and distinctive photographic style. Day light is his most important "ingredient". Looking at his works one can discover British history of the last 50 years without reading one word. Anne de Courcy describes Lord Snowdon's work in great detail, with knowledge and admiration as working was and is an absolute must for his man
Well, of course that is not all: his background, family, education and of course his marriage to and divorce from Princess Margaret, his relationship with the Royal Family and his children are discussed at great length. His second marriage and its breakdown and his many relationships with other women, often conducted parallel, are explained and discussed. Here Lord Snowdon emerges as a less attractive personality. But there is something very loveable about him as all his wives and partners never really left him or he them. So there must be something extremely attractive about him. Anne de Courcy is the first to inform the public about another love child of the Lord. Strangely she did not mention the marriage of his daughter Frances.
At last, Anne de Courcy describes his work for the disabled which earned him a Life Peerage, so that he could speak in the Lords even after the Reform which expelled most Hereditary Peers.
All in all, this is just a fantastic book which captures this complex, many-sided personality to perfection. Her style of writing is great - there is great flow, one follows the development of this unique personality, gains understanding, she is not at all blind to his flaws and spells them out, but there is never an accusation and judgemental tone. It is a rare gem of a biography. In short this is a must read!!
An interesting life finally explored. - Rated
I live in the US and mainly have heard the trashy stuff about Princess M and Lord Snowdon. But after reading this book - which does not exclude the private life of the man - I learned so much about his contribution to the cultural and social life of Britain. I had no idea that he ever had polio, never mind that he went on and gave so much of his time to raising the quality of life for the disabled. Quite a man and gifted as can be. It's interesting that so many of the non-royals in the "firm" actually work and want to do more than cut ribbons. It does show how the Princess was bred to be vapid and now we see it in this generation with Charles. This books shows us snippets of how spoiling children leads to divorce and all sorts of disasters. But like Diana, Lord Snowdon and Fergie moved on and never seemed to want to look back.
