Wind in My Hair: A Kaleidoscope of Memories by Josephine Loewenstein, edited by Tom Perrin Presentation copy inscribed & signed by the author on the title page thus: “Deirdre & Ian Lots of love Josephine”; The Dovecote Press Ltd 2016 1st ed/1st printing, 195pp. Text generally in decent order albeit with slight browning & “waviness” to pages & an old erased pencil price/date just visible to the top right hand corner of the front free end paper, some staining to the page extremities at the very bottom, spine cocked, bumping & rubbing to board corners, to the top, bottom & sides of boards & spine & to the front top & bottom left hand/rear top & bottom right hand corners, boards a bit bumped & marked, the dust jacket has slight internal & external browning, heavy creasing to the front & rear inside blurb, externally there is heavy creasing & rubbing to the top of the front, rear & spine with a very small tear to the rear top right hand corner, a small patch of scuffing to the rear bottom edge, creasing to the front left hand/rear right hand sides, the front, rear & spine all have many marks scratches & indentations. When Princess Josephine Loewenstein published her memoirs, her friends were amazed. What would this most discreet of society figures, whose circle has included Sir Mick Jagger, Princess Margaret, Gianni Agnelli and Lord Glenconner, have to say about them all? Her late husband, Prince Rupert Loewenstein, caused a mild shock in 2013 when he wrote his own book, A Prince Among Stones, a pun on his career as financial adviser to The Rolling Stones. It bears witness to a life of extraordinary glamour and good fortune, taking us from the corridors of Ledbury Park, her grandparents’ home, to the whirl of Rome in the Fifties; from high-society London to parties on Mustique, where she still has a house. A long way from 1945 when she joined the Sadler’s Wells Ballet School, aged just 14, rubbing tutus with Margot Fonteyn and Moira Shearer. Back then she was Josephine Lowry-Corry, only child of the short-lived marriage between Montagu Lowry-Corry, a Grenadier Guard, and Mary Constance Biddulph, daughter of Lord and Lady Biddulph.
