Outrageous Fortune: Growing Up at Leeds Castle - Paperback

by Anthony Russell (Author)

In this memoir, Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society.

Author Biography

ANTHONY RUSSELL was educated at Stowe School, England. For more than five hundred years his family has served Kings and Queens of England as ministers, privy counselors, generals, and prime minister. He was raised at Leeds Castle, Kent, where his childhood was centered on the feudal world of his very rich grandmother, Lady Baillie, with occasional excursions to the much less grand castle of his other grandmother, Lady Ampthill, in Ireland. A writer, musician, and composer, he currently divides his time between Los Angeles and France.