Talks@Willoughby presents Susanna de Vries

by WilloughbyCouncil
08/05/2012

12:30pm, Tuesday 5 June 2012 Chatswood Library on The Concourse Lower Ground, 409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood FREE event

Popular Australian author and historian, Susanna de Vries will present her latest book Royal Mistresses at Talks@Willoughby, 12.30pm, Tuesday 5 June, at Chatswood Library on The Concourse.

Exploring the loveless, arranged marriages of the British Monarchy throughout history, Royal Mistresses gives a fascinating account of the passionate, and often scandalous, relationships of the Princes of Hanover-Windsor and their lovers, including George IV and Maria Fitzherbert, Edward VII and Wallis Simpson, and Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Susanna de Vries has written extensively on art and history, including Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates and To Hell and Back: The Banned Account of Gallipoli by Sydney Loch. The recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Italy, Susanna was also awarded an Order of Australia for services to Australian art and literature in 1996, and a Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship to write in Ireland by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2001.

Bookings for Talks@Willoughby events are essential, please visit www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/library

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