Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle (32 page)

The author’s parents off to a Buckingham Palace event, c. 1965. (Photo courtesy of the author)

The author rehearses with his band at Stowe, 1968. (Photo courtesy of the author)

Author on the croquet lawn, Leeds Castle, 1972. (Photo courtesy of the author)

Author’s mother presents the “key to the castle” to Queen Elizabeth with Pauline and Vanessa, 1981. (Courtesy of the Leeds Castle Foundation)

The swimming pool, Leeds Castle. (Courtesy of the Leeds Castle Foundation)

The drawing room, Leeds Castle. (Courtesy of the Leeds Castle Foundation)

Lady Baillie’s bedroom, Leeds Castle. (Courtesy of the Leeds Castle Foundation)

A
BOUT THE
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UTHOR

ANTHONY RUSSELL was educated at Stowe School, England. For more than five hundred years his family has served kings and queens of England as ministers, privy counselors, generals, and prime minister. He was raised at Leeds Castle, Kent, where his childhood was centered on the feudal world of his very rich grandmother, Lady Baillie, with occasional excursions to the much less grand castle of his other grandmother, Lady Ampthill, in Ireland. A writer, musician, and composer, he currently divides his time between Los Angeles and France. Visit Anthony online at
www.anthony-russell.com
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OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
. Copyright © 2013 by Anthony Russell. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

Cover design and photo-coloring by Lauren Harms

Cover photograph of the author and his brothers by Geoffrey Russell

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Russell, Anthony, 1952–

   Outrageous fortune: growing up at Leeds Castle / Anthony Russell.—First edition.

           pages    cm

   ISBN 978-1-250-00601-1 (hardcover)

   ISBN 978-1-250-03137-2 (e-book)

   1.  Russell, Anthony, 1952—Childhood and youth.   2.  Leeds Castle (England)   3.  Kent (England)—Social life and customs.   4.  Nobility—Great Britain—History—20th century.   5.  Baillie, Olive, 1899–1974.   I.  Title.

   DA664.L38R87 2013

   942.2
′
375—dc23

   [B]

2013016546

eISBN 9781250031372

First Edition: November 2013