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This volume of Lady Diana Cooper’s memoirs focuses on Diana’s life as a young married woman during the 1920s and the birth of her child John Julius Norwich. Almost every young man that she danced with pre-1914 was killed during the War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, who went on to become an important minister under Churchill.
Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early twentieth stage, screen and social scene. This first instalment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties – ‘dancing and extravagance and lashing of wine, and charades and moonlit balconies and kisses’ – which were interrupted with the outbreak of the First World War. This volume ends with Diana’s marriage to the ‘love of her life’, diplomat and politician Duff Cooper.
This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper’s memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper was Britain’s ambassador to France. Through the eyes of a sophisticated diplomat’s wife we glimpse a world in turmoil, and are given a unique insight into fascinating contemporary characters from Churchill, de Gaulle and Rothschild to Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton.
Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, society darling, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married the politician Duff Cooper, they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was anyone; they sat at the very heart of British public life. Here are her letters to her only son, John Julius Norwich, covering the period 1939 to 1952, taking us from the Blitz to post-Liberation Paris, via a Sussex smallholding, the Far East just before Pearl Harbor and a spell with the Free French in Algiers.
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