While there are no direct comparisons, there is a whiff of Diana Mitford to her, as she famously left her husband to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley (her second husband), the head of the British Union of Fascists. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. Narrator Fanny’s mother is nicknamed ‘The Bolter’ by the family, after she left her daughter in order to pursue a more glamorous life.
Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief s bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving her multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man.Īn inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. An inspiration for Nancy Mitfords character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of. On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. In an age of bolterswomen who broke the rules and fled their marriagesIdina. Paperback Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress
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