David Pryce-Jones

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David Pryce-Jones

Alan Payan Pryce-Jones
Therese Fould-Springer
RelativesDavid Shukman (son-in-law)

David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones

FRSL (born 15 February 1936) is a British conservative
author and commentator.

Early life

Pryce-Jones was born on 15 February 1936, in Vienna, Austria.[1] He was educated at Eton and earned a degree in history at Magdalen College, Oxford.[2]

He is the son of writer

de Rothschild (1916–2003).[10]

His parents married in 1934 in Vienna, where Pryce-Jones was born. His mother's Jewish background made it unwise to remain in Vienna and the family moved to England at the end of

Dieppe, Normandy and was rescued from the invading German army by his mother's brother-in-law Eduardo Propper de Callejón.[12] He acknowledged his uncle-by-marriage's efforts in saving his own life when Propper de Callejón retired from Spanish diplomatic service.[citation needed
]

Pryce-Jones is a first cousin of Elena Propper de Callejón, wife of late banker

Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, only son of the better known Baron Élie de Rothschild.[citation needed
]

Career

Pryce-Jones did his

Suez War, but admits that he did not believe what he was saying.[13] At the time, he believed that the Islamic world would soon progress after decolonization, and was disappointed when this did not happen.[13] He has worked as a journalist and author. He was literary editor at the Financial Times 1959–61, and The Spectator from 1961 to 1963.[citation needed
]

Pryce-Jones is a senior editor at

Benador Associates. He often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters.[citation needed
]

In his 1989 book The Closed Circle, Pryce-Jones examined what he considered to be the reasons for the backward state of the Arab world.[13] A review described the book as more of an "indictment" than an examination of the Arab world.[13] In Pryce-Jones's opinion, the root cause of Arab backwardness is the tribal nature of Arab political life, which reduces all politics to war of rival families struggling mercilessly for power.[13] As such, Pryce-Jones's view is that power in Arab politics consists of a network of client–patron relations between powerful and less powerful families and clans.[14] Pryce-Jones considers as an additional retarding factor in Arab society the influence of Islam, which hinders efforts to build a Western style society where the family and clan are not the dominant political unit.[14] Pryce-Jones argues that Islamic fundamentalism is a means of attempting to mobilize the masses behind the dominant clans.[15]

In his book, Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews, he has accused the French government of being

Eurabia theory,[17] which has been praised by Pryce-Jones as "prophetic".[18] The American diplomat Philip Gordon gave a highly unfavorable review of Betrayal in Foreign Affairs, describing the book as a French-bashing "polemic" disguised as a work of history.[16] Gordon accused Pryce-Jones of hypocrisy, noting that he took successive French governments to task for supporting Middle Eastern dictators like President Saddam Hussein of Iraq while failing to note that both the United States and the United Kingdom have also supported Middle Eastern dictators.[16] Gordon wrote that Pryce-Jones's claim that French President Jacques Chirac was guilty of "perfidy" towards the West by opposing the Iraq War in 2003 was unfair, writing in 2007 that much of what happened in Iraq since 2003 appeared to justify Chirac's predictions of a debacle if the United States invaded.[16]

Pryce-Jones wrote a biography, Evelyn Waugh and His World (1973). It was rather notorious for digging up conflict among the married Mitford siblings, with Pamela accusing Jessica of revealing private correspondence concerning their sister the Duchess of Devonshire. The 1976 biography Unity Mitford: A Quest followed, despite alleged efforts by some of Unity Mitford's sisters to prevent Pryce-Jones from doing his research and publishing the book.[19]

Personal life

He married Clarissa Caccia, daughter of diplomat

Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, in 1959.[citation needed] They have three surviving children, (one deceased, Sonia: 1970–1972), Jessica, Candida and Adam, and live in London.[citation needed] Jessica is married to the BBC journalist David Shukman.[20][21]

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

References

  1. ^ Ellen Doon. "Alan Pryce-Jones Papers", Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. May 2003. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  2. ^ a b Snowman, Daniel (21 January 2016). "Review: Fault Lines". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  3. ^ The year of death is from the Pryce Jones papers at Yale and other sources. Burke's Peerage 103rd edition (1963) Archived 16 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine apparently gives the year wrongly as 1952, unless the error is in the transfer to online data. The Fould Springer genealogical notes by Anne Yamey (below) incorrectly give her date of death as 1997.
  4. ^ According to the New York Social Diary Archived 15 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Wooster had been a lover of her husband and had lived with them in a troika before Eugène died. The widow and the bereaved lover then married; he lived until 1953. The story, well known to their circle, was not revealed publicly until her British son-in-law Alan Pryce Jones wrote about it in his memoirs. See also another story on how the Fould-Springers met Wooster
  5. ^ "Baroness Elie de Rothschild". The Telegraph. 20 February 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2008.[dead link]
  6. Contact Music. 24 October 2006. Archived from the original
    on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  7. ^ Weisbach, Rachel (2006). "Barmitzvah joy for Helena". SomethingJewish. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  8. ^ Costa, Maddy (3 November 2006). "'It's all gone widescreen'". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 13 July 2007.
  9. ^ Obituary: Baroness Elie de Rothschild. Independent, The (London)
  10. ^ Anne Yamey. Springer family: DANIEL and The FOULD-SPRINGER family Archived 13 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 28 February 2008. The title was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
  11. ^ Ellen Doon. "Alan Pryce-Jones Papers", Yale, New Haven, Connecticut. May 2003. Retrieved 8 November 2021
  12. ^ Jenni Frazer. Ibid
  13. ^ a b c d e Gellner, Ernest "Up From Imperialism" pp. 34–36 from The New Republic, Volume 200, Number 21, Issue #3, 879, 22 May 1989 p. 34
  14. ^ a b Gellner, Ernest "Up From Imperialism" pp. 34–36 from The New Republic, Volume 200, Number 21, Issue #3, 879, 22 May 1989 p. 35
  15. ^ Gellner, Ernest "Up From Imperialism" pp. 34–36 from The New Republic, Volume 200, Number 21, Issue #3, 879, 22 May 1989 p. 36
  16. ^ a b c d Gordon 2007, p. 48.
  17. ^ "Le monde manichéen d'Eurabia". Le Monde (in French). 28 May 2012.
  18. ^ "Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate". Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  19. ^ David Pryce-Jones, ‘You are always close to me’: Unity Mitford’s souvenirs of Hitler,The Spectator Australia, 28 March 2015.
  20. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U2000161
    .
  21. ^ "How to be a good (cancer) patient". The Times. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  22. ^ "A brave voice against the barbarians | Daniel Johnson". 29 April 2020.

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