Ceaseless Turmoil

by James Lees-Milne

Book Overview

In this penultimate volume, James Lees-Milne is as engaging and readable as ever; his sharpness and wit are undiminished as he forges into his eighties. He discusses architecture with the Prince of Wales and royal mistresses with Princess Michael of Kent. As the grand old man of country house conservation, he becomes a media celebrity, but he declines a C.B.E. and refuses to be photographed by Lord Snowdon. He reads in The Times of the death of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719565782
• ISBN13: 9780719565786
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.