![]() ![]() This despite being the granddaughter of an Earl and, on her mother’s side, a wealthy Harley Street medico. In her ‘Memoir of Growing Up’ Fraser, now in her eighties, is at pains to describe what an ordinary girl she was, and how middle-class her upbringing. The several I have read are engaging, impeccably researched and – on occasion and appropriately – laugh out loud funny ( Warrior Queens). Her biographies are best sellers ( Mary Queen of Scots) that get made into movies by the hollywood elite ( Marie Antoinette). Even when you most certainly are.Įnglish biographer Antonia Fraser DBE is something of a paragon. As long as there is someone wealthier, smarter or better-off than you, then it’s hard to consider yourself privileged. ![]()
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