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Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966
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Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air.
Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, showering glass everywhere. An electrician has been summoned. Happily, the television remained on.
“Do I have Netflix?” She feigns astonishment at my question. “Is the Pope a Catholic?” The delights of Netflix – or “Lady Nettie” as she calls it – are something the family talks about all the time. She is particularly fond of Shtisel, a subtitled Israeli soap opera set in a Hassidic community in Jerusalem. “Akive,” she sighs, recalling the good-looking, permanently bewilder
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Prolific: Lady Antonia is still writing aged 88
The most expensive item the author Lady Antonia Fraser has ever bought herself for fun was a heated swimming pool for her lodge in the Scottish Highlands.
Fraser, the daughter of an earl and whose second husband was playwright Harold Pinter, told DONNA FERGUSON her biggest money mistake has been betting on the horses because she always loses.
Now 88, she is still writing as passionately as ever and her latest historical biography – The Case Of The Married Woman: Caroline Norton – is out on Thursday.
What did your parents teach you about money?
They taught me two very different things. My father Frank Pakenham, the 7th Earl of Longford, was extremely extravagant and didn t really have any money. He taught me that it didn t much matter what you had in your pocket – you decided first what to spend.
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