Yes, and although officially the daughter of the Duke of Rutland, more than likely one of as many as 40 High Society families' half siblings, sired by a wickedly handsome, dastardly, successful seducer cad. And if a wife was not available, (virgin daughters too risky - and usually less fun), he would go after housemaids. It is said that Maggie Thatcher's grandmother was one of them, so Maggie was probably Lady Diana's niece. Lady Diana did joke about Maggie being her niece - she knew the stories. Nobody has done the blood tests. The extraordinary blue eyes, Diana had probably the most beautiful, (though I believe she was horrifically short sighted), examples of, are often the give away that Harry was visiting when these children were conceived. When LD was living in her French smallholding, she used to let the hens inside. Visitors would often find them in the kitchen, on cold days. I have my last hen sleeping inside as weather gets cold. She married Duff after most of the young men she had crushes on, died in WW1. She adored him. She harrassed Churchill and all her contacts to get him a title. She even invited women to visit, who Duff wanted to bed. She was the famed beauty, Duff was only ever ordinary - though I was fascinated by his theory of Shakespeare's lost years - but she adored him. He was really savage about poor Wodehouse awful naivety in accepting the German's offer of doing some radio broadcasts. He just never thought it could be seen as collaboration. Duff was like a really nasty terrier about Plum. LDC was a wonderful character.
She figures a lot in the Diaries of Henry "Chips" Channon. Fascinating woman. A voice from a lost era. For all its faults I'd take my family back to the early to middle part of the 20th Century in a trice.
You and me both, Pal. Will never forget wonderful Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey cruising around with Bunter in the Roots Bentley. Also the Wodehouse world. Yearn for the simplicity and sanity.
This is lovely. Lady Diana Cooper is one of my favourites. She speaks as she wrote. So nice to hear her voice.
Fascinating.
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Thank you so much much appreciated💫🙏
Great,can see her happily chatting away with Paddy Fermor.😢thanks Ann.
Thanks for posting. She's Evelyn Waugh's "Mrs Stich" character that appeared in several of his novels.
Her attempt to find a job for her "fashionable novelist protegee" John Boot causes the case of mistaken identity that is central to the plot of Scoop.
I have the book made from their correspondance - marvelous. She was 78 in this interview and died in 1986.
The mother of John Julius Norwich
Yes, and although officially the daughter of the Duke of Rutland, more than likely one of as many as 40 High Society families' half siblings, sired by a wickedly handsome, dastardly, successful seducer cad.
And if a wife was not available, (virgin daughters too risky - and usually less fun), he would go after housemaids. It is said that Maggie Thatcher's grandmother was one of them, so Maggie was probably Lady Diana's niece.
Lady Diana did joke about Maggie being her niece - she knew the stories. Nobody has done the blood tests.
The extraordinary blue eyes, Diana had probably the most beautiful, (though I believe she was horrifically short sighted), examples of, are often the give away that Harry was visiting when these children were conceived.
When LD was living in her French smallholding, she used to let the hens inside. Visitors would often find them in the kitchen, on cold days. I have my last hen sleeping inside as weather gets cold.
She married Duff after most of the young men she had crushes on, died in WW1. She adored him. She harrassed Churchill and all her contacts to get him a title. She even invited women to visit, who Duff wanted to bed.
She was the famed beauty, Duff was only ever ordinary - though I was fascinated by his theory of Shakespeare's lost years - but she adored him.
He was really savage about poor Wodehouse awful naivety in accepting the German's offer of doing some radio broadcasts. He just never thought it could be seen as collaboration.
Duff was like a really nasty terrier about Plum.
LDC was a wonderful character.
She figures a lot in the Diaries of Henry "Chips" Channon. Fascinating woman. A voice from a lost era. For all its faults I'd take my family back to the early to middle part of the 20th Century in a trice.
You and me both, Pal. Will never forget wonderful Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey cruising around with Bunter in the Roots Bentley. Also the Wodehouse world. Yearn for the simplicity and sanity.