Kitty Mersey, 1953
DD, 1950. Courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s
Nancy (left) and Decca at Rue Monsieur, Paris
Pamela with her dachshunds. Zürs, 1964
Diana and Oswald Mosley. Venice, 1955
Aly Khan, Teresa de Sousa Campos (centre) and DD. Rio de Janeiro, 1955
DD (left) and Nancy on the Lido, Venice. By kind permission of Marina Cicogna
Hardwick Hall
Sitting for Pietro Annigoni, 1954
Lismore Castle
With Royal Tan, winner of the 1954 Grand National
Andrew and Violet Hammersley. Lismore, c.1950
Lucian Freud, Andrew, Penny Cuthbertson. Careysville, 1972
Robert Kee and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Lismore, 1960
With Andrew in the garden at Chatsworth
With Sophy in the yellow drawing room. Chatsworth, 1960
Emma’s wedding to Toby Tennant. Chatsworth, 1963 (l. to r.) Mary Devonshire, Stoker, DD, David Skailes, Sophy, Toby, Emma, Matthew Yorke, Andrew, Christopher Glenconner
With Cecil Beaton, 1969
At Stoker’s wedding, 1967 (l. to r.) DD, Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Emma
In the west garden with Sophy (left) and grandchildren Isabel and Eddie Tennant, 1968. By kind permission of Ron Duggins
My bedroom at Chatsworth. By kind permission of Simon Upton
My sitting room at Chatsworth. By kind permission of Simon Upton
With the ‘guns’ at Bolton Abbey. DD and Harold Macmillan mounted, early 1960s
Shooting at Chatsworth, 1960. By kind permission of Snowdon
With Stoker at the Game Fair. Chatsworth, 1966
Lagos, 1962 (l. to r.) the Olori of Lagos, Andrew, the Oba of Lagos, DD, Dorothea Head
With Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik) and my sister-in-law Elizabeth Cavendish. Chatsworth, 1961
Visit of the Shah of Persia to Chatsworth
Invitation to the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy
Greeting Robert Kennedy on his visit to Chatsworth in 1964 (Eddy Sackville-West is immediately behind me). By kind permission of Ron Duggins
Pushing over a pile of pennies at a charity event in Whitwell, Derbyshire
Serving behind the counter at the Orangery Shop at Chatsworth
With Sophy at the Countryside March, 1997
Celebrating our Golden Wedding at Chatsworth with over 1,000 couples from Derbyshire who also married in 1941. By kind permission of Ron Duggins
Tercentenary of the dukedom. Chatsworth, 1994
With the Prince of Wales, 2000
With Sybil Cholmondeley at Houghton
Diana, Pamela and DD at Chatsworth
With my granddaughter Stella Tennant
With Jean-Pierre Béraud, chef and entrepreneur, wearing his fortieth birthday party wig, 10 August 1996. He was killed in a car crash two months later
At Andrew’s and my eightieth birthday party in the dress made by Worth for Duchess Louise for the Devonshire House Ball in 1897. Chatsworth, 2000. By kind permission of Simon Upton
Feeding the hens. By kind permission of Bridget Flemming
With my great-grandchildren in 2009 (l. to r.) Barney Dunne, Rosa Tennant, Jake Carter, Lily Hill, Victor Hill, Marcel Lasnet, Cecily Lasnet, Alfie Carter, Harry Tennant, Ned Carter, Georgia Tennant, Jasmine Lasnet, Iris Lasnet, Willa Carter, Cosmo Dunne, Isla Tennant, Maud Cavendish. By kind permission of Charlotte Bromley-Davenport
Aged ninety at the Old Vicarage, 2010, under the portrait of Muv painted by Philip de Laszlo in 1916 – four years before I was born. By kind permission of Bridget Flemming
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