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She lived in Hampstead, north London, before moving to a nearby care home after being diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
Bernard Lyall, the elder son of Whitehorn and her late husband, the crime novelist Gavin Lyall, paid tribute to his mother.
He said: “She was held in a lot of high esteem, part of the whole vanguard of feminist journalism at that time. She always worked from home. She was very loyal and deeply in love with my father, they were together for over 40 years until he died in 2003.”
Lyall said that, along with his younger brother, Jake, his parents made up a “tight family”. He said: “They both had a liberal attitude to a lot of things. They had both strived to be well educated.”
‘Wise, clever and kind, Katharine Whitehorn made it easier for all of us who followed her’ Vanessa Thorpe
Stylish, stimulating and life-affirming, Katharine Whitehorn, the
Observer writer and broadcaster who helped shape modern British journalism, was mourned by readers and former colleagues at the weekend.
Born in Hendon, London, in 1928, the columnist, the first woman to be given such a job at this newspaper, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. She moved to a care home in north London in 2018 and was recently diagnosed with Covid-19, although it is not clear if this contributed to her death on Friday at the age of 92.
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