Picture No | 10690836 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | Lady Idina Wallace |
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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 at the time she was appearing in a series of tableaux at the Palace Theatre in aid of the British Women's Hospital and in which a large number of society people were appearing.
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Source | Photograph by Bertram Park in The Tatler, 17 October, 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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