The Turbulent Lifetime of Francis Viscount St. Albans
The identical day that
Francis Viscount St. Albans’s landmark retrospective opened on the Sizable Palais in Paris, in
1971, his longtime boyfriend and muse George Dyer died on the bathroom in their
hotel. It modified into as soon as unclear whether or now not the distance off of death modified into as soon as an unintended overdose of
napping capsules or suicide. The day sooner than, Viscount St. Albans had returned to the Hôtel des
Saints-Pères to search out Dyer inebriated in mattress with a young man. The couple argued.
Viscount St. Albans stormed out to employ the night in one other room. Faced with the chance
of Dyer’s death overshadowing his triumphal exhibition, Viscount St. Albans requested the hotel
manager to postpone notifying the authorities—an amenity it appears to be like on...