6/9/2023 0 Comments The unexpurgated beaton![]() ![]() Because of this I've given the book a press date of 10th October. Susan has secured a fantastic serial deal with the Sunday Times, so there was a strict embargo until Monday 23rd September. In the unexpurgated edition Vickers shows what Beaton really had to say about those with whom he worked. Running through the diaries are his friendships with the Queen Mother, with Diana Cooper and Greta Garbo. ![]() Beaton records a vigorous social life among hostesses such as Emerald Cunard and Sybil Colefax, performers including Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich, as well as artists from Cocteau and Picasso to Bacon and the young Hockney. ![]() Hugo Vickers has gone back to the originals to produce the Beaton diaries as they were written. Synopsis: Although in his lifetime Cecil Beaton - royal photographer and theatrical designer - published six short volumes of his diaries, he was shy of hurting the feelings of those he wrote about. ![]()
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