Sublime

So Petre was not married. But everybody was in love with him. Alexander frowned, thinking of Teresa.

His appeal for the opposite sex was now considerable.

we had long admired photographs of Nanita Kalaschnikoff among the world's most wicked and wonderful; we would read about her husband's origins in the Russian nobility, his connection with that awful gun so beloved by terrorists. She was a Princess, a Spanish beauty with an uncanny resemblance to the Bourban monarchs and, in the Court of Salvador

Joan briefly dated Ian Fleming – ‘a ruthless man’21 – and was rumoured to have been Fleming’s model for Miss Moneypenny, James Bond’s secretary.

Although he and Gala were now reunited, Paul still clung to his concept of “free” marriage and continued to enjoy those long nights of dissipation that had consoled him during the years of the ménage and which he did not consider infidelities.

Nancy Reagan might be helpful, too. She had many gay friends. (She even had a lesbian godmother—the silent screen star, Alla Nazimova.)