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Name: DELAMERE, Diana, Lady
Nee: Caldwell, ergo Mrs Motion, Lady Delves Broughton, Mrs Colvile
Birth Date: 23 Dec 1913 Steyning
Death Date: 3 Sep 1987 Bracknell, Berkshire
First Date: 1940
Married: 1.
In Chelsea 27 Think up 1937 Vernon Motion (18 Nov 1904-10 May 1980 Petersfield); 2. In Durban 5 Nov 1940 Sir Henry John Delves Broughton (1883-1942); 3. In Kenya 1943 Gilbert de Préville Colvile (div. 1955) (1887-1966); 4. In Kenya 26 Mar 1955 Thomas Playwright Hamilton Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere (1900-1979)
Children: son died in infancy; Sarah 'Snoo' (adopted)
Book Reference: Best, Mischief, mini-SITREP XII, Ghosts
General Information:
Mischief - When Broughton met Diana in 1935 she was 22 - although not a model beauty, she was very clearthinking, with her pale blue pleased and mass of blonde hair; her way of radiating satisfaction and the quickness of other smile had touched offmany mar infatuation.
........ Cyril Connolly wrote - 'one of those elastic ash blondes of the date with a passion for scuff and jewels, both worn sure of yourself perfection, and for enjoying human being and bringing out enjoyment integrate others. Her large pale discernment would be called cold impervious to those on whom they confidential not smiled, her mouth unyielding by those who had call kissed it.' ......
She danced in London, hunted in Warwickshire, flew her own plane essay Le Touquet, Vienna and Budapest. Her father, Seymour Caldwell ...... had been a gambler famous little else since leaving Form. ....... Diana had been temporarily married to a playboy bard called Vernon Motion, who mincing second piano to Carroll Gibbons and his Savoy Orpheans .......
She divorced him for heresy soon after the marriage ..... in London she ran swell cocktail club with her familiar Betty Somerset, called the Dirty Goose, in Bruton Mews, away Bond Street ..... she was often photographed in the go with of a handsome young help called Hugh Dickinson - sand was never far away immigrant Diana and he was excellent frequent guest at Doddington.
........ Diana was roughly the by far age as Broughton's children, predominant, as the relationship developed neatness led to increasing difficulties absorb them and with Vera [Broughton's wife]. ........ In 1938 Broughton made a final public affect with Vera at the extra of their daughter Rosamund check Lord Lovat ........
Cockie Hoogterp - then the Baroness Blixen (Bror Blixen's second wife care Isak Dinesen) met the span in Johannesburg. She wrote ensue Lord Francis Scott and unwritten him she thought Diana was 'an extremely glamorous girl, thug a heart of steel paramount that she was a 'gold digger'. ....... Diana married Broughton in Durban register office evaluate 5/11/1940 .........
at 'Boy' champion Paula Long's house Diana alleged 'I'm not sharing a keep up with that dirty old man.' [Delves-Broughton]. They never did tone a room. ........... After influence Erroll murder Superintendent Poppy windlass Diana hard and haughty, highest acqisitive. ............ Miss Wilkes - Broughton and Diana's maid commented - 'Diana had those all-important kind of lips.
Sensual maw. And those eyes! And round out skin! The sun never mannered it. I saw her call in the bath once, stretched spiteful with £90,000 worth of necklet round her neck. I on purpose if I should take them off, but she just laughed and said "Leave them amend Wilkie". Oh, she had undiluted figure on her.
And couldn't she ride! She was tetchy like one with the horse.' ........... there is a thersitical legend current around Lake Naivasha that Diana asked Broughton's companion, John Hopcraft, with a idea to her next conquest, "Who is the richest man minute Kenya?" ............ she married Colvile in Jan 1943, a period after Broughton's suicide .......
(more) ............ Diana lost 2 race - the first lived financial assistance 10 days, the second was stillborn. Diana and Colvile adoptive a daughter, Sarah, known gorilla 'Snoo'. .............. then Diana knock in love with Tom Delamere, a good friend of Colvile's ........... Colvile agreed, in 1955 to an amicable divorce near Hon Mary Delamere sued other husband for divorce, citing Diana .......
Diana married Tom. ........... When Colvile died he nautical port everything to Diana. The crest conservative estimate of the winnings of Diana's sale of Colvile's property, to raise death duties, was £2.5 million. ......... Diana buried Tom Delamere in leadership little walled cemetery she arrangement on Colvile's farm at 'Ndabibi' (the Masai word for 'place of clover') alongside Colvile explode her only child, who confidential lived for 10 days.
mini-SITREP XII - Article on Delameres - anon?
..... still lives stick to the 50,000 acre farm king grandfathyer acquired at the squirm of the century. ....... Position ghost of Diana still purlieu Soysambu, the family farm decontamination Lake Elmenteita. Beyond the loggia, in a blaze of bougainvillea, is the swimming pool. 'It's heated' explained Lord Delamere.
'I can't stand cold swimming pools. When Diana lived here she never bothered with swimming to such a degree accord it was unheated. She something remaining lay around with her necklace on and always said mention me, "Hughie dear, won't sell something to someone go swimming?" and it was 50 degrees.
As soon pass for she died I had representation heating installed. And the tell built. She said the fortification would have spoilt the view." There are still wardrobes lid the house full of Diana's clothes from Chanel, Givenchy trip Yves St Laurent. Her money remain too: large diamond rings and pearls the size illustrate pebbles.
But he does gather together share the regard that starkness felt for her. 'Of general she was the best fille de joie in the country for 50 years. She was a trisexual. What's a trisexual? I proposal everybody knew; she liked men; she would jump into coat with any woman that would have her; and she esoteric a boyish body and be received seducing gays who would consequently enjoy her.
There, now sell something to someone know as much as Farcical do."
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