Lady De L ’lsles Busy Life At Home
(Bp SUSAN VAUGHAN!
Few men can run a top job successfully without the help of their wives. It is the wife who helps in times of stress, who goes cot of her way to charm important guests.
Lord De L’lsle is a case in point. In his career as Member of Parliament, Government Minister, state-ly-home owner and company director, his wife has taken a womanly share in the responsibilities that have come his way. Now that he has been appointed Gover-nor-General of Australia, her duties as “First Lady” will be qven more numerous. Lady De L’lsle is a small, slightly-built woman with deep-set blue eyes. She was born 46 years ago as Jacqueline Veraker and came from a military family. Her father was Lord Gort. a World War I V.C., and it seemed logical that when the "women’s army,” the A.T.S., was formed just before World War II she should join up straight away. Summer Visiters She was appointed a junior commander. Even now, she still has military ties—as honorary colonel of a women’s Territorial battalion. Her husband won a V.C. at Anzio. Lady De L’ Isle spends much of her time at Penshurst Place, Kent. There, each summer, thousands of people pay 2s. 6d. a time <ss. on Sundays) to view the house, which has been in the family since 1552 (Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan soldier and poet, is one of Lord De L’lsle’s ancestors) The income is useful for keeping the house in trim—but it in no way represents the bulk of the family fortunes. Lady De L’lsle herself inherited a personal fortune of £170,000 from her father.
She makes an ideal guide, partly because she can speak three languages, French. Italian and German. Many an international
visitor has been agreeably surprised at the polyglotal fluency displayed by Lady De L’lsle as she describes technical details at Penshurst. Now that Lord and Lady De L’lsle are leaving the house. Penshurst will be in charge of their eldest daughter. 20-year-old Elizabeth, who is married to a stockbroker. The other children (Philip, aged 15, Catherine, 18, Anne, 13 and Lucy, eight) will go to Australia.
Elizabeth says "I don’t think I can possibly supervise the accounts of Penshurst. I can’t even add.” She said it with a twinkle in her eye. She has about her good sense and adaptability of her mother.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 2
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