Beauty of Her Age

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  • ISBN 9781445677194
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Yolande Duvernay was born in poverty in Paris in 1812. Under the control of a formidable stage mother, she became a celebrated ballerina – the favourite dancer of Princess Victoria – renowned for her beauty, grace, and provocative style on stage. Sold for sexual assignations from puberty, she gave birth to two children and became the mistress of a succession of men. When she became the mistress of Stephens Lyne Stephens, son and heir of the richest commoner in England, her mother was rewarded with over a million pounds in today’s money. There was a massive scandal a few years later when she manipulated Stephens into marriage, and when he died, he left her a life interest in his entire fortune. With an annual income worth more than six million pounds today, she became the wealthiest woman in England – even richer, it was said, than Queen Victoria. While her husband’s will was placed in the infamous Court of Chancery and lawyers began to pore over every word, Yolande seduced the British military attaché in Paris. With an eye on her fortune, General Claremont took charge of her financial affairs, and soon he and his wife were sharing her wealthy lifestyle in a barely disguised ménage-à-trois. Jenifer Roberts unearths this fascinating story of sex, scandal and money, and proves that truth really can be stranger than fiction.
Previous books by Jenifer Roberts include 'Fitz: The Colonial Adventures of James Edward FitzGerald' (2014); 'The Madness of Queen Maria' (2009 and in Portuguese translation 2012); and 'Glass: The Strange History of the Lyne Stephens Fortune' (2003). She writes for 'History Today' magazine and lives in a seventeenth century farmhouse in Wiltshire with her husband and a rescue dog.