Lady Idina Gordon
Lady Idina Gordon, nee Sackville, sister of Lord De La Warr, pictured at the Guards Point-to-Point run over a line at Lordland's Farm, Hawthorn Hill. Five-times married Idina would gain notoriety as part of the Happy Valley Set when she 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
10639131
Media ID
46682227
Size
2800px x 6452px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Tatler, 21 March 1923
Date
1923
