Higham: Sexual Perversion, Nazis, And Drugs
Nobody writes o-bitch-uaries like the British. Latest example: this Telegraph post mortem on Charles Higham, the author of biographies of Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, the Duchess of Windsor, and many others. The paper says: ‘The themes of fascism, closet homosexuality and sexual perversion that had proved so productive in the case of Flynn were themes that Higham would mine again and again…His “Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life” (1988) might have been more aptly titled “Fascist, Lesbian Harlots at the Court of St Jamesâ€, suggested one reviewer, who went on to observe that for the Duchess to have been guilty of even half the peccadilloes attributed to her, “early on she would have succumbed to exhaustionâ€.’
