Curator, writer, Director of the Royal Collection Studies and Courtauld lecturer

Giles Waterfield, art historian and author, talked about his grandparents’ gentle way of life among ex-patriate society in the South of France before the First World War changed their world forever. He described Clos du Peyronnet, the fine house and gardens they created in Menton and how he had used their lives as the basis for his haunting and nostalgic novel, The Long Afternoon.