![]() ![]() Her bridegroom introduced her to the Workers' Educational Association, for whom she became a tutor, and she introduced him (a Tory in youth) to socialism. They were married at St Margaret's Westminster in 1931, family legend being that Frank turned up at Westminster Abbey by mistake, to find it empty, and was consoled by his best man Freddie Birkenhead saying: "Nobody goes to weddings these days." ![]() ![]() She bestowed a kiss on the brow that was later to be instantly recognised by its conspicuous high dome, a gift to caricaturists. Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham, said that "there was not an undergraduate who would not consider it a privilege to hold an umbrella over her."īut one night at the end of a New College ball her gaze alighted on the slumbering form of Frank Pakenham - "like a Greek god," she said, "with brown curls". She was pursued by Hugh Gaitskell and the Oxford don Maurice Bowra (she was the only girl at his parties) and was a friend of Evelyn Waugh and Lord David Cecil. ![]()
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