Lady Rothermere’s Fan
Mary-Kay Wilmers, 7 November 1985
The Letters of Ann Fleming
edited by Mark Amory.
Collins, 448 pp., £16.50, October 1985,0 00 217059 0 Show More
edited by Mark Amory.
Collins, 448 pp., £16.50, October 1985,
“... We missed you at Chantilly,’ Ann Fleming wrote to Evelyn Waugh in 1956, after she’d been to visit Diana Cooper in France. ‘Mr Gaitskell came to lunch and fell in love with Diana ... He had never seen cocktails with mint in them or a magnum of pink champagne. He was very happy. I lied and told him that all the upper class were beautiful and intelligent and he must not allow his vermin to destroy them ... ”