The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice De Janze and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll (25 page)

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Minnie (dachshund)

put down by AJ, with a barbiturate

Mitford, Nancy,
The Pursuit of Love

Mombasa

railroad from, to Nairobi

travel from Europe to

Monster (dog)

Monte Carlo

Montrose, Duke of

Moore, Sir Henry

Morocco

Morris, Henry Harris (“Harry”)

anonymous letters to, naming the murderer

hired for five thousand pounds to defend HDB

letter from, saying he was convinced of HDB’s innocence

said to have confused the jury with ballistics

Mosley, Sir Oswald

Motion, Vernon

Mount Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C.

Munster, second earl of

Mussolini, Benito

Muthaiga Club (Nairobi)

Myrtle Beach, S.C.

 

 

Nairobi

clubs in

railway to

Nairobi Club

Nembutal

New York City, William Silverthorne’s home in

New York Times

Ngong-Nairobi Road

Ngong Road

Nightingale, Florence

Noailles, Anna de

Norfolk Hotel (Nairobi)

Norman, H. R.

Normandy

Northey, General Edward

 

 

O’Neill, Pat Cavendish,
Lion in the Bedroom

Oserian (home of JH and Mary)

Outfit, The (Chicago gang)

 

 

Pakenham, Mrs. Dermot

Parfondeval, Château de, Normandy

AJ spends time at

Paris

AJ in

aristocratic milieu of

Paris-Soir

Parkhurst Prison

Patou, Jean

Paul, Dr.

Pearson, Noreen

daughter of, bequeathed Wanjohi Farm

Pembroke, Richard (“Dickie”)

AJ’s letters to

alibi for AJ

background

witness at HDB trial

penises, showing off

perfume

pets, AJ’s love of

Pitt, Peggy

Pius XI, Pope

Plunkett, Myrtle

ponies, AJ’s

Poppy, Arthur James

Portluca (AJ’s cottage in Nairobi)

Presbyterian faith

Preston, Gerry

Preston, Kiki

primogeniture

Prohibition

Proust, Marcel

Pygmies

pyrethrum (crop)

 

 

quinine

 

 

Radford, Michael

rail travel

Ramsay-Hill, Cyril

Ramsay-Hill, Mary (“Molly”) (later Erroll)

death of

poor health

Ramsden, Sir John Frecheville (“Chops”)

Rayetta (farm)

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Rice, Edward

riding

Ritz Hotel (London)

road travel

Roderigo (monkey)

taken to France

Rodwell, Edward

Rougemont, Guillaume de

roulette

Ruta, Arap (driver)

Ryan, Genevieve.
See
Janzé, Genevieve de

Ryan, Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Sackville, Albert, eighth Earl de la Warr

Sackville, Idina (Lady Gordon)

(1926) daughter born to

(1928) separated from JH

(1930) weds Donald Haldeman

(1941) at HDB’s trial

(1941) search for Erroll family pearls

ancestry of

elopement and marriage to Josslyn Hay

pregnancy of

scandalous behavior of

social leadership in Wanjohi Valley

safaris, big-game

Saint-Lazare women’s prison (Paris)

Samson (lion)

Satima Farm (Buxton’s)

Scott, Sir Francis

Shannon, Father

Shapley, Schwarze and Barratt

Sharon, Conn., William Silverthorne’s home in

“sheet game,”

Sheridan, Sir Joseph

ship travel

Silverthorne, Albert David (William’s father)

Silverthorne, Alice.
See
Janzé, Countess Alice de

Silverthorne, Asa

Silverthorne, Bill (son of William)

Silverthorne, Juliabelle.
See
Chapin, Juliabelle

Silverthorne, Patricia (half sister)

Silverthorne, William (AJ’s father)

(1892) marriage to Juliabelle Chapin

(1908) second marriage to Louise Mattocks

(1940) death of

AJ’s weddings not attended by

declining years

estrangement from AJ in later years

not invited to AJ’s weddings

reputation as drinker, gambler, extravagant spender, and ladies’ man

Sim, Uncle.
See
Chapin, Simeon B.

Simpson, Wallis

Sitwell, Osbert

Slains (farm of Joss Hays)

Soames, Jack

witness at HDB trial

Soldiers Settlement Scheme

Soltau, Vincent

Somers, Elizabeth

Spanish Civil War

Spaulding family

Spicer, Bullen

Spicer, June

Spicer, Margaret

friendship with AJ

Spicer, Paul (author)

Spicer, Roy

Stanleyville

Steinheil, Marguerite

“The Storm” (juvenile poem by AJ)

Suez Canal

Sunday Dispatch

 

 

Taporley Hunt Club

Tattie, Aunt.
See
May, Alice

Tchelitchew, Pavel Fedorovich

Thermia Palace spa (Piestany, Slovakia)

Tiwi

AJ’s house in

Trafford, Alice de.
See
Janzé, Countess Alice de

Trafford, Sir Dermot de (6th baronet)

Trafford, Sir Humphrey de (3rd baronet)

Trafford, Humphrey de (4th baronet)

Trafford, Raymund de

(1926) visits Kenya and purposes to buy land

(1926) goes on safari with FJ and AJ

(1927) announces to AJ that he will not marry her

(1927) shot and almost killed by AJ

(1927) at AJ’s court proceedings

(1928) AJ continues to see

(1931) agrees to marry AJ

(1932) marries AJ

(1932) AJ seeks legal separation from

(1933) shows up in Kenya

(1939) drunk driving homicide, and prison sentence

AJ’s café row with

AJ’s correspondence with

assault on an employee, and asked to leave Kenya

background of

character flaws

gambling habit

literary opinions of

meets FJ and AJ

sent to Australia

Trafford, Sir Rudolph de (5th baronet)

Trafford, Violet de

Trafford family, genealogy of

Trzebinski, Errol

The Life and Death of Lord Erroll

 

 

Uganda

 

 

Valentino (baboon)

Vanderbilt, Alice

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Vanderbilt, Reginald

Vanderbilt family, safari with

Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart Henry (7th Marquis of Londonderry)

Vint, Dr.

Voi

 

 

Wallace, David

Wallace, David Euan

Wallace, Fabian

Wallace, Gee

Wanjohi Farm (AJ’s)

bequeathed to AJ’s daughters under impossible conditions

furnishings of

new house built on

now a school for girls

Wanjohi Valley, Kenya

decadent aristocrats in, news coverage of

health benefits of

Ward, Freda Dudley

Wardell, Hilda

Waterpark, Danièle

Waterpark, Lord

Watson, J. N. P.

Waugh, Evelyn

White Mischief
(movie)

White’s (London club)

William IV, King

Williamson, Henry

women, single, not admitted to Kenya

women’s clothes

World War One

World War Two

run-up to

THE TEMPTRESS
. Copyright © 2010 by Paul Spicer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

www.stmartins.com

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Spicer, Paul (Paul G. B.)

The temptress: the scandalous life of Alice de Janzé and the mysterious death of Lord Erroll / Paul Spicer.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Not all images included in the print edition of this title are available in this ebook edition.

ISBN: 978-1-4299-8472-0

1. Janzé, Alice de, 1899–1941. 2. Erroll, Josslyn Hay, Earl of, 1901–1941. 3. Murder—Kenya—Nairobi—Case studies. 4. British—Kenya—History—20th century. I. Title.

HV6535.K43N347 2010

364.152'3092—dc22

2009047038

 

First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd in 2010

 

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