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| Picture No | 11072277 |
| Date | 1903 |
| Description | Lord Buckhurst, Lady Myra (Idina) and Lady Avice Sackville |
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The children of Lady de la Warr including, left, Lady Myra Sackville, more commonly known as Lady Idina Sackville, who, through her five marriages was also known under the surnames of Wallace and Gordon (among others). She married him, her first husband, Captain Euan Wallace, 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.
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| Source | Photograph by Speaight in The Tatler, 6 May 1903 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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