A Prince Among Stones (31 page)

My parents in a rare photograph of them as a couple. They did not stay together for long, although long enough to produce me.

Aged
16
: after school at St Christopher’s in Letchworth, I prepared for my Oxford entrance examination with tutors in Cambridge.

With my mother in Europe in
1939
: I spent the early months of the War in France before being flown out on one of the last civilian flights before Paris fell.

Dancing with Miss Julie de Pentheny O’Kelly at the coming-out dance for Anne Charleton at Londonderry House on Park Lane, July
1950
.

An informal portrait of Josephine, née Lowry-Corry, shortly before we were married.

Emerging from our wedding in July
1957
at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington. Forty-one years later our daughter Dora was married in the same church.

Josephine photographed by Antony Armstrong-Jones before he married Princess Margaret and was created
1
st Earl of Snowdon.

Josephine with our sons Konrad and Rudolf.

Some time away from the demands and unsociable timetables of the international financial markets, with Josephine and the boys in the garden at Holland Villas Road.

In stern financier mode: I became managing director of the merchant bank Leopold Joseph in
1963
, shortly before my thirtieth birthday.

Josephine in Venice – a regular destination for us through the years. Our son Konrad is now priest at the eighteenth-century church San Simeon Piccolo in Santa Croce.

Attending Baron Alexis de Redé’s grand Oriental Ball at the Hotel Lambert in Paris, December
1969
. I am wearing a costume based on a Léon Bakst design; Josephine’s was her own design.

On an Italian adventure with Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland, and (
sitting
) Dino Pecci-Blunt, Circeo, May
1965
.