Perhaps regulars on this message board might be interested to know that I am currently completing a major article about Joyce Brittain Jones for a future edition of RDQ. I don't think anyone (apart from Marlene) has investigated the life and background of this most discreet of royal mistresses but the story I have unearthed is fascinating and her connection to the Greek royal family is far more complex and long lasting than is generally realised.
My research has taken me to the UK National Archives in Kew, to Cambridge, to the Indian Library at the British Library (Mrs BJ was born in India) and I have received a huge amount of help from many other writers and historians. The Marquis of Queensberry (his aunt was Mrs BJ's stepmother) gave me access to his aunt's unpublished memoirs.
My great problem is illustrations. Apart from a rather tiny image in Arthur Gould Lee's 'Royal House of Greece' - there seems very little else - and I would be interested to know if anyone else has come across photographs of the 'Mrs Simpson of Greece'. There was an superb photograph of Mrs BJ in the Greek Gazette magazine a few years ago but I only have a poor photocopy.
