Sheridan, Richard Brinsley here
Sheridan, Wilfred here, here
Simpson, Wallis here, here
Sinatra, Frank here
Skoropadskyi, Pavlo Petrovich here
Smythe, Maryanne here
Snowdon, Lord here, here
Soames, Mary (née Churchill) here, here, here, here, here
Solomons, Dr Bethel here, here, here
Somerset, Bobby here, here
Somerville and Ross here
Soudre, General here
Southby, Susan here, here
Spanish Civil War here, here, here
Spears, General Edward here
Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil here
Stagg, Frank here
Stalin, Josef here, here
Stephen, Sir Leslie here
Stevenson, Adlai here
Stirling, David here
Strong, Helen, see Leslie, Helen
Sugden, Dr Teddy here
Sutherland, Graham here
Swift, Dean here, here, here, here
Tannenberg, Battle of here
Taylor, Elizabeth here
Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald here
Thames Television here, here, here
Thatcher, Margaret here, here
Theosophical Society here
Thielen, Benedict here
Tolstoy, Leo here
Trans-Jordan Frontier Force here
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk here
Tredegar, Lord here
Trevor-Roper, Hugh here
Trotsky, Leon here, here
Truman, Harry S., here
Tussaud, Marie here
Udy, Guillermo de here
Ukraine here, here, here, here, here, here
Ulster Volunteers here
Upstairs, Downstairs here, here
Upward, Edward here
VE-Day here, here
Victoria, Queen here, here
Vincent, Senator Arthur here
Vincent, Bill here, here
Vincent, Derry here
Vincent, Rose, see Gardner, Rose
Vladimir, Grand Duke here
Vonnegut, Kurt here
Vreeland, Diana here
Waits, Tom here
Walker, Olive here
Warhol, Andy here
Warwick, Daisy here
Washington, George here
Watkins, Alan here
Waugh, Evelyn here, here
Wavell, General Archibald here
Wavell, Pamela here
Westonbirt College here
Wharton, Edith here
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey here
White, Antonia here
Whittome, Anthony here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wilde, Oscar here
Wilson, Edmund here
Wilson, Harold here, here, here
Wilson, Peter here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Bill King marriage here, here, here
his death here, here
life after Bill King marriage here, here, here, here, here
marriage to Prim Baker here, here
Wilson, Prim (née Baker) here, here, here
Wilson, Roddy here, here
Wingate, Colonel Orde here, here
Wittkowsky, Dr here
Wolfe, Miss here
Wyndham Land Acts here
Yeats, W.B., here, here, here
Young, Michael, and Peter Willmott here
Young, Mrs here
Young Winston here
Zone Therapy here
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Anita as a small child.
The schoolgirl Anita.
Anita in bomb-ridden London in 1940, wearing her Hardy Amies-designed Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC) uniform.
German troops surrendering to the French Army in 1945 with a Red Cross ambulance alongside.
Anita with her MTC ambulance.
Anita with friends during the war.
Anita with donkey in Syria, now Lebanon, c.1943.
Anita with her co-driver, Geneviève, in front of the ambulance. They are both wearing their recently awarded Croix de Guerre, summer 1945.
Anita and Shane and Lionel Leslie, studio shot from the 1940s.
Anita’s commanding officer Jeanne de l’Espée and fellow officer.
Colonel Peter Wilson, Commander of Transjordan Frontier Force and later on Churchill’s staff in Berlin and London.
Colonel Paul Rodzianko CMG, Anita’s first husband. They were married in 1937, divorced in 1948.
Anita and Colonel Peter Wilson at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.
Clare Sheridan and Anita in 1940, before Anita sailed to Pretoria with the MTC.
Commander Bill King arranging a picnic, probably in Lebanon, where he first met Anita in 1943.
Anita with her children, Tarka and Leonie.
Anita and Bill on their wedding day at Castle Leslie, with pageboys, 1 January 1949.
Bill, Leonie, Tarka and Anita at their home, Oranmore Castle, Co. Galway.
A glamorous pre-war Anita.
Anita with art-gallery owner Roy Miles in London in the early 1970s.
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