Four Studies in Loyalty - The Century Lives and Letters

This extraordinary collection of essays, each on a different aspect of loyalty, begins with an account of the author's uncle, and his strange and enduring friendship with Edward, Prince of Wales. The second essay tells of the eccentric Persian, Bahram Kirmani, and his unserving loyalty to Oxford University - a place of learning he never actually attended. The third considers Byron's loyalty to his art, in particular the art of travel writing, and the fourth deals with the loyalty of a band of French men and women to England as witnessed in the Vosges, behind German lines, in the closing years of the Second World War...