Allan Starkie
A Date With Death
The fatal transformation of Jane Andrews, royal confidante turned killer
Mainstream Publishing ( 2001)
The author, a member of the Duchess of York’s inner circle, was intimate with her dresser, Jane Andrews. He tracks Andrews from her modest working class roots in Grimsby, catapulted into a jet-setting high life, and leading inexorably to the night when she plunged a nine-inch blade into the heart of her boyfriend, wealthy and popular Thomas Cressman. Starkie’s story is of passion and fury, which ultimately unhinged ‘Lady Jane’ and drove her to murder.