Lady Idina Gordon going big-game shooting
Lady Idina Gordon (nee Sackville), who married her second husband, Captain Charles Gordon, in 1919, pictured in The Tatler with news that she was about to travel to British East Africa (Kenya) where her husband owned a house, for a big-game shoot. Idina would eventually make her permanent home in Kenya, where she was a leader of the notorious Happy Valley set. Five-times married Idina permanently moved to Kenya in 1924 with her third husband, Josslyn Hay, Earl of Errol. With her serial marriages and reputation for debauched decadence, she inspired the character of The Bolter in Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and the character Iris Storm in The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
Picture No
13990239
Media ID
45428906
Size
3500px x 5099px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Bertram Park in The Tatler, 14 December 1921
Date
1921
