The relic at centre of a 1920s High Society love triangle: How ruin from the ancient palace of Persepolis was gifted to Virginia Woolf by her lover Vita Sackville-West...and what became of it when their relationship soured over her many affairs | Daily Mail Online

The celebrated writer and gardener gathered the fragments when visiting the ruins of the ancient palace of Persepolis in what is now Iran in 1927.