I’ve spent the last month or so working my way through this first volume of the diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon, and what a ride. My current opinion is that he’s the worst guy around but he is a great and entertaining writer who has never met a social ladder he did not want to climb, a royal he was unable to charm, and a cutting remark unsaid. He lived a really fascinating life where he knew every famous political and upper class English person […]
Highly Entertaining Diaries Full of the Worst Opinions You’ll Ever Read
Henry "Chips" Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 by Henry Channon (edited by Simon Heffer)
