The Mistresses of Cliveden

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<p><b>A<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller - Five women. One house. One extraordinary history.</b></p><p>Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle and her mother spent the night before the royal wedding - but from its construction in the 1660s to its heyday in the 1960s, Cliveden has played host to a dynasty of remarkable and powerful women.</p><p>Anna Maria, Elizabeth, Augusta, Harriet, and Nancy were five ladies who, over the course of three centuries, shaped British society through their beauty, personalities, and political influence.</p><p>Restoration and revolution, aristocratic rise and fall, world war and cold war form the extraordinary backdrop against which their stories unfold.</p><p>An addictive history of the period and an intimate exploration of the timeless relationships between people and place,<i>The Mistresses of Cliveden</i>is a story of sex, power and politics, and the ways in which exceptional women defy the expectations of their time.</p>

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Natalie Livingstone was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1998. She began her career as a feature writer at the<i>Daily Express</i>and now contributes to<i>Tatler</i>,<i>Harper's Bazaar</i>,<i>US Vogue</i>,<i>Elle</i>,<i>The Times</i>and the<i>Mail on Sunday</i>. Natalie lives in London with her husband and two children.

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