Goldeneye (estate) by Noël Coward, and Bolt House, owned by Chris Blackwell's mother, Blanche, who was a long time friend of Fleming. The property was equally popular with a coterie of Hollywood stars and British literary greats as it was British aristocrats and international heads of state. Errol Flynn, Lucian Freud, Truman Capote, Patrick Leigh Fermor, the Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Margaret, and Prime Minister Anthony Eden were all visitors. Eden even made the property the temporary Headquarters for the British government during the Suez Crisis of 1956. The Goldeneye of the Blackwell era has also attracted celebrities, both as his friends
The Last Exile The Last Exile The Last Exile (1961) is an historical novel by Australian writer James Aldridge. The novel is set in Egypt before, during and after the Suez Crisis of 1956. A number of prominent players in the crisis, including Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, and Egypt President Gamal Abdul Nasser, appear as characters in the book. A reviewer in "The Canberra Times" noted the risks of writing about so recent an event, and then worried about the length of the book: "In any fictional treatment of a controversial and still remembered incident of history, it is almost impossible for