Lady Winifred Burghclere

Lady Winifred Burghclere's four daughters were as follows:

Hon. Juliet Mary Evelyn Stanhope Gardner (1892- 1974 ). In 1916 she married Captain Alexander Duncan Cumming Russell ( 1889-1951), they divorced in 1922. Juliet, a repressed lesbian, devoted her life to working for the RSPCA, and lived in Tunbridge Wells.

Alathea Margaret Gwendolin Valentine Gardner ( 1893-1968) married Geoffrey Storrs Fry ( 1888-1960) in 1915. Fry was knighted – he was Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Bonar Law and Baldwin. Geoffrey was a homosexual. Alathea’s mental health was a constant issue, she died at sea.

Hon. Mary Gardner ( 1896-1982) married Hon. Geoffrey Hope Morley, ( 1885-1977) eldest son of Lord and Lady Hollenden. Divorced 1928. She then married Alan Hugh Hillgarth ( 1899-1978), a diplomat, spy and adventurer, they divorced in 1946.

Hon. Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner ( 1903-1994). Married the writer Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), they divorced in 1930. Waugh’s famous ‘ She Evelyn’ married three times in all.

Lady Winifred, her mother ( who died in 1933 ) was spared the humiliation of Evelyn’s second divorce from John Heygate, in 1935.

Evelyn later settled down to 'normal life' when she married her third husband,Ronald Nightingale.

Lady Winifred Burghclere

LADY WINIFRED BURGHCLERE

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