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ISBN: 9780755310241 - Past Forgetting
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Past Forgetting

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A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure and Love

Lady Veronica Maclean

ISBN: 9780755310241
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group


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Veronica Maclean was born in 1920, the fourth child of one of the last great Highland princes, Simon Joseph, 16th Baron Lovat, known to his clansmen as 'The MacShimidh'. Her father's lands stretched three…

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Veronica Maclean was born in 1920 in the Scottish Highlands to the illustrious Fraser family and married the diplomat and politician Sir Fitzroy Maclean. Past Forgetting is the story of her life played out against the dramatic social, political and diplomatic history of the twentieth century. From her acquaintance with the Kennedys, Bushes and the Astors to her friendships with Belloc, John Singer Sargent and Freya Stark, Past Forgetting also charts her journeys overland to China, Persia and Yugoslavia, her lecture tours in America, and her medical mission to the Balkans in the late 1990s.
 
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