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François Mitterrand, who later became President of the French Republic in 1981, in his chronicle La Paille & le Grain, mentions his friendship with Violet Trefusis under 2 March 1972, when he received "the telegram" informing of her death.
- English
- Queen Camilla (grandniece)
- Novelist, radio broadcaster
Mar 31, 2020 · When Vita went ahead with her conventional marriage to Harold, Violet agreed to an unconventional marriage to Denys Trefusis, a man who’d promised to marry her on platonic terms. This created the first fundamental difference between the two lifelong friends: Vita loved her husband; Violet did not.
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Oct 10, 2018 · Though monogamy wasn’t prized by the Edwardian nobility, marriage was obligatory. Shortly after her twenty-fifth birthday, in June 1919, Violet was all but frog-marched down the aisle. The groom, Denys Trefusis, was a tall, blue-eyed war hero who, at least in the eyes of society, was a peerlessly desirable match. Violet liked him well enough.
Mar 20, 1977 · Violet Trefusis (1894‐1972) was not one of the major talents of her time. She cannot be said even to belong to the famous Bloomsbury Group. Yet her life intermingled fatefully with the life of ...
Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972) English novelist, memoirist, and salon hostess. Born Violet Keppel in London, England, on June 6, 1894; died at the Villa l'Ombrellino in Florence, Italy, onMarch 1, 1972; daughter of Colonel George Keppel (an army officer and brother of the earl of Albemarle) and Alice (Edmonstone) Keppel (1869–1947); sister of Sonia Keppel (1900–1986); married Denys Robert ...
Feb 11, 2010 · 2476 words. Violet Trefusis was born on 6 June 1894, the elder daughter of Alice Keppel, a famously discreet mistress of the future Edward VII. ‘I wonder if I shall ever squeeze as much romance into my life as she has had in hers,’ Violet wrote in the summer of 1918 to Vita Sackville-West. She had begun to squeeze a very indiscreet romance ...
The object of her passion was her friend Violet Keppel (later Trefusis). They had originally met in 1905 when Vita was thirteen and Violet was eleven, while visiting a mutual friend with a broken leg.
