Robert Smith Literary agency » Allan Starkie https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Date With Death: The fatal transformation of Jane Andrews, royal confidante turned killer https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/747/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/747/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:56:19 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=747 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 […]

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]]> Starkie A Date With DeathThe 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.

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