#violet keppel

[inspirationpainting]

Violet Keppel (1894-1970), Mrs Denys Robert Trefusis

[shadowland]

Janet McTeer as Vita Sackville-West and Cathryn Harrison as Violet Keppel in Portrait of a Marriage (BBC, 1990)

[hindouse]

Letter from Violet Keppel to Vita Sackville-West on March 17, 1921

[holeymolars]

Janet McTeer as Vita Sackville-West and Cathryn Harrison as Violet Keppel in Portrait of a Marriage (BBC, 1990)

[hangsawoman]

violet trefusis in a letter to vita sackville-west, 23 august 1920

[whimlen]

All I wanted to do was read some love letters between Vita Sackville-West (left) and Violet Trefusis née Keppel (right) and then I went into a rabbit hole of all the connections between the British aristocracy. The family tree is a circle.

One of Vita’s many suitors married Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of George V & Mary Teck. (left)

Violet’s mother Alicia Keppel (right) was a descendant of Charles II. She was also a longtime mistress of King Edward VII.

And is also the great grandmother of Camilla through her other daughter Sonia, whose daughter Rosalind is Camilla’s mother.

[loveswitchery]

She's lazy and human, and would never climb as high as the gods. They'd have to come down to her.

Violet Trefusis, from Broderie Anglaise

[unefemmemapparut]

Violet Trefusis