David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones was born on 15 February 1936 and is a British conservative author, historian and political commentator.
17 Facts About David Pryce-Jones
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David Pryce-Jones was educated at Eton and earned a degree in history at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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David Pryce-Jones is the son of writer Alan Payan Pryce-Jones by his first wife, Therese "Poppy" Fould-Springer of the Fould family.
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David Pryce-Jones had a brother, Baron Max Fould-Springer, and two sisters Helene Propper de Callejon, wife of Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejon and grandmother of actress Helena Bonham Carter, and Baroness Liliane de Rothschild.
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David Pryce-Jones's parents married in 1934 in Vienna, where Pryce-Jones was born.
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In 1940, a four-year-old David Pryce-Jones was stranded with his nanny in Dieppe, Normandy and was rescued from the invading German army by his mother's brother-in-law Eduardo Propper de Callejon.
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David Pryce-Jones acknowledged his uncle-by-marriage's efforts in saving his own life when Propper de Callejon retired from Spanish diplomatic service.
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David Pryce-Jones is a first cousin of Elena Propper de Callejon, wife of late banker Raymond Bonham Carter and mother of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
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David Pryce-Jones did his National Service in the Coldstream Guards, in which he was commissioned in 1955, promoted lieutenant in 1956, and served in the British Army of the Rhine.
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In 1956, David Pryce-Jones lectured the men under his command about the necessity of the Suez War, but admits that he did not believe what he was saying.
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David Pryce-Jones contributes to The New Criterion and Commentary, and for Benador Associates.
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David Pryce-Jones often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters.
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David 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.
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David Pryce-Jones argues that Islamic fundamentalism is a means of attempting to mobilize the masses behind the dominant clans.
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David Pryce-Jones wrote a biography, Evelyn Waugh and His World.
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The 1976 biography Unity Mitford: A Quest followed, despite alleged efforts by some of Unity Mitford's sisters to prevent David Pryce-Jones from doing his research and publishing the book.
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David Pryce-Jones married Clarissa Caccia, daughter of diplomat Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia, in 1959.