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4 unusual facts about Blanche d'Alpuget


Blanche d'Alpuget

Asher Keddie played her in the 2010 multi-award winning telemovie, Hawke.

Turtle Beach was made into a feature film in 1989 featuring Greta Scacchi and Jack Thompson.

For fifteen years d'Alpuget abandoned her career as a writer and travelled the world with her new husband, visiting not only capital cities but remote areas of China, Inner Mongolia, Moldova, Easter Island, Palau, Kazakhstan, the North West Frontier of Pakistan and the Antarctic peninsula.

The Young Lion

The Young Lion is an historical novel by Blanche d'Alpuget.


Blanche d'Antigny

She became the mistress of the Russian police chief Mesentzov who took her to St. Petersburg and, when she was forced to leave Russia by special order of the Tsarina, to Wiesbaden.

She went to Egypt where she appeared on the stage in Cairo and also had an affair with the Khedive.


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