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The British novelist Evelyn Waugh studied at Oxford university.
The poet John Betjeman said: ‘Everyone was queer at Oxford in those days!’
Evelyn’s gay friend Tom Driberg, later a Labour MP and spy, said that Evelyn enjoyed ‘some lively and drunken revels – mainly homosexual in character.’
Evelyn’s ‘first homosexual love’ was with Richard Pares, a student at Oxford.
The Oxford historian A. L. Rowse was a fan of Richard Pares’s ‘red kissable lips’.
(Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, by Philip Eade, Weidenfeld & Nicolson / , Duke of Gloucester, and George, Duke of Kent, were friends of Beauchamp.
Alastair Graham’s mother was a wealthy American.
His father, Hugh Graham, was the son of a baronet and the grandson of the 12th Duke of Somerset.
Alastair became a diplomat.
In Athens, Alastair was honorary attaché to the British Minister, Sir Percy Loraine.
Loraine ‘had an affair with the young Francis Bacon’.
When Evelyn visited Alastair in Athens, he found that the flat was ‘usually full of dreadful Dago youths… who sleep with the English colony for 25 drachmas a night’.
(Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, by Philip Eade, Weidenfeld & Nicolson / dailymail)
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“In 1954 the novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) set off from England on a cruise ship bound for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
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