Rechtstreeks Van De Fabrikant Coming up trumps – Jean Trumpington

A riveting memoir from Lady Trumpington, doyenne of the House of Lords, taking her from 1920s London to her career in politics. In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable privilege, but the Wall Street Crash entirely wiped out her mother’s fortune. Leaving school at fifteen, without ever taking an e…