Lady Idina Wallace with Hon. Ralph Stuart-Wortley
Lady Idina Wallace, nee Sackville, eldest daughter of Lord de la Warr, and wife of Captain David Euan Wallace of the Household Cavalry. She married him, her first husband, in 1913, but divorced in 1919. 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. Pictured in The Tatler walking in Hyde Park with the Hon. Ralph Stuart-Wortley, a brother of Lord Wharncliffe
Picture No
10700636
Media ID
46095862
Size
3650px x 4643px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 18 April 1917
Date
1917
