There's scandals and snippets galore in this coverage of the lives and carryings-on of famous, near famous and infamous over fifty years. There's actors and royals, writers and singers and lords and ladies. The Cliveden set (the Profumo scandal...) get a mention, as do Barbara Cartland, Cilla Black, the Astors, Cecil Beaton, Agatha Christie, Richard Attenborough, Mick Jagger, Sir Edmund Hillary... as well as shocking news events such as the sinking of the Titanic. Illustrated with black and white photographs.