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Article: The lady love who met her Waterloo; Critics choice. (book review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2001
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Byline: VAL HENNESSY
LADY DE LANCEY AT WATERLOO
by David Miller (Spellmount, [pound]20)
WE HAVE many accounts of the Battle of Waterloo written by men. But this vivid report written by a woman who was actually there must surely be the most poignant of all Waterloo memoirs.
Lady Magdalene de Lancey's account of her experiences in Belgium in June 1815 describes how, following the custom of the day, she left England to join her dashing husband, Colonel William de Lancey, on standby for the great battle.
The two had been married for just ten days when the news of Napoleon's escape from Elba was to shatter their lives.
It ...