Lady Fortescue achieved fame in 1935 following the publication of Perfume from Provence, telling of the life that she and her husband enjoyed in France. The book also offered glimpses of what had gone before, and eventually, after her husband's death, Lady Fortescue wrote the story of her whole life - and in particular of her meeting and marriage with Sir John Fortescue. This is that nostalgic re-creation of another era, of her excitement as an actress before World War I, of her meeting with the man she was to marry, and of their first home together in Windsor Castle during the reign of King George V and Queen Mary.