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Beautiful For Ever : Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer, Paperback / softback Book

Beautiful For Ever : Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer Paperback / softback

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A TRUE STORY OF LIES, BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON_________________________Madame Rachel had everything. A Mayfair address; the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen'; a shop full of exotic, expensive creams and potions; and a clientele of the aristocratic, the rich - and the gullible.

Little did they suspect that Madame Rachel had once been a poor fish-fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner of Victorian London.

Her shop in New Bond Street lured her wealthy clients in their droves, enticed by the promise of eternal beauty.

What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery and the desperate hopes of women wanting to be 'beautiful for ever'.

Beautiful For Ever is a thrilling tale of love affairs, scandal, blackmail, high-profile court cases, suicide and fraud, with the extraordinary Madame Rachel right at the centre of it all.

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