Recently, I have listened to three excellent biographies by Mary S. Lovell: 'A Scandalous Affair', 'Bess of Hardwicke', and 'The Mitford Girls'. I am now listening to her first
one about Beryl Markham, the firsst woman to fly solo, east>west across the Atlantic. She died in Kenya in 1986 at the age of 83 after a most eventful life. I am still only three-quarters of the way through. She was an expert trainer and rider of race horses, a writer, mistress in the late 1920s/early 1930s of Prince Henry (later Duke of Gloucester
and goodness knows what else besides! Tall, blonde and beautiful too!
