Maurice Talvande, self-styled as the Count de Mauny Talvande, was a French-born naturalised British garden designer, writer, and furniture maker. He is best known as the owner of Taprobane Island in C
Taprobane Island in 2007, showing de Mauny's house
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster,, was a British landowner who supported Nazi ideology and had an affair with French designer Coco Chanel.
Maurice Talvande, Count de Mauny Talvande
…Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire Valley, de Mauny relied on his wife's contacts to supply the dozen pupils. It was visited by Lord Lorne and attended by the 2nd Duke of Westminster as a 19-year-old. There were persistent rumours of sexual advances made to the pupils by de Mauny who, when confronted by the Duke, admitted he was…
The Duke in the early 1900s
The Duke of Westminster
The Duke c. 1900
The 2nd Duke's portrait bust at St Mary's Church, Eccleston