It was his fierce determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives - including the money that was rightfully theirs - that led them one by one to revolt against their father.The three Curzon sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the twenties and thirties. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon embarked on a long love affair with the novelist Elinor Glyn, before dropping her to marry his rich and beautiful second wife. "The Viceroy's Daughters is the riveting chronicle of the dazzling lives of three remarkable sisters - aristocratic, rich, spirited and willful-born when the wealth and privilege of the British upper classes were at their zenith.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (born 1898) and Alexandra (born 1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed.
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