He is an English aristocrat, though he does not use his title — Heraclitus would approve — and is the grandson of Virginia Woolf’s lover, Vita Sackville-West (and Sir Harold Nicolson).

HAROLD NICOLSON : THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL. II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. 511 pages. Atheneum. $8.50. “One should write one’s diary for one’s great-grandson ...

DIPLOMACY—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and ...

The British diplomat and historian Sir Harold Nicolson wrote about the lengths to which British officials went to avoid kowtowing to the emperor of China without creating offense. Not creating ...

In 1919 the experienced British diplomat Harold Nicolson had called it “the ghost at all our feasts.” This curious and lopsided diplomatic story has attracted the attention of columnist and ...

KING GEORGE THE FIFTH. HIS LIFE AND REIGN (570 pp.)—Harold Nicolson—Doubleday ($7.50). When the little prince was born, in 1865, his grandmama Victoria wanted his first name to be Frederick ...

They can also learn how the erotic entanglements of Vita and her diplomat husband Harold Nicolson in Berlin, and Harold’s politics, were part of their German adventure. Harold wasn’t involved ...