White Mischief (49 page)

Authors: James Fox

Juanita Carberry, in her garden in Mombassa, 1979.

Abdullah bin Ahmed, photographed in 1979.

Diana, Lady Delamere in 1969 receiving the Uhuru Cup from President Jomo Kenyatta at Nairobi racecourse.

Diana, Lady Delamere with black marlin at Pemba Channel, Kenya in February 1982.

Cyril Connolly with his son Matthew at Eastbourne shortly before his death in 1974.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe a special debt of gratitude to Francis Wyndham, Tom Maschler, Cloe Fox, Joanna Bridge, Faith Evans, Jonathan Galassi and Fred Seidel. And, of course, to Cyril Connolly.

I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the following for providing me with their reminiscences, their advice, their help and, in many cases, with their generous hospitality, both in England and during my visit to Kenya in 1979: David Allen, Jim Allen, Petal Allen, Lady Altrincham, Hermione Baddeley, Sandy Birkbeck, Anstis Bewes, Jack and Doria Block, Sir Michael Blundell, Patricia Bowles, Sir Evelyn and Lady Delves Broughton, Lady Elizabeth Byng, Julian Byng, Juanita Carberry, the Earl of Carnarvon, Bruce Chatwin, Lady Clark, Quentin Crewe, Lady d’ Avigdor Goldsmid, Hugh Dickinson, Nina Drury, Dicky Edmondson, Lady Erskine, Charles Erskine, Francis Erskine, Mary Ann Fitzgerald, Alastair Forbes, Udi Gecaga, George Githii, Alfred Harwich, Cockie Hoogterp, Alan Horne, Sir Charles Johnston, Tim Jones, Deirdre Levi, Paula Long, Beryl Markham, Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Lady Mosley, Mark Peploe, Lady Antonia Pinter, Peggy Pitt, Benjamin Pogrund, Arthur Poppy, Peter Quennell, Tessa Reay, Dushka Repton, Mirella Ricciardi, Sylvia Richardson, Pamela Scott, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Louise Stjernsward, Xan Smiley, Dan Trench, Errol Trzebinski, Sbish Trzebinski, Humphrey Tyler, Lady Jane Wellesley, Martin Wilkinson, Stella Wilkinson, Marie Woodhouse.

I would also like to thank Xan Smiley for his permission to use extracts from the diaries of his grandmother, Lady Francis Scott.

The epitaph
Fu I
on p. 30 is reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd from
Collected Shorter Poems
by Ezra Pound.

Above all, my special thanks to Diana, Lady Delamere, for talking to me about the events of 1941.

1982
J.F.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Fox was born in Washington, DC, in 1945 and educated in England. In addition to the international bestseller
White Mischief
, he is the author of
The Langhorne Sisters
and the coauthor of
Life
, Keith Richards’s autobiography. Fox lives in London with his wife and sons.

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ISBN: 978-1-4804-8917-2

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