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Ts memoir (284pp, written in the 2000s but based on diary entries from the time and extracted from a much larger account) covering the years 1939 - 1948, when she was a schoolgirl attending the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, with whom she was evacuated to Newquay, Cornwall (September 1939) and then to Stanford Hall in Rugby, Leicestershire (c. 1940), but focusing on the holidays, which she spent with her parents at their home in Mayfair, London and recalling her apparently halcyon, middle class childhood spent there. References to the war are few but the account includes extremely good descriptions of both shopping and dining in the West End during this period (including vivid descriptions of some of those establishments she and her family frequented), trips to visit friends in both Newnham, Hampshire and Colchester, Essex, a visit by the Queen to a knitting club established by Mrs Dudley Ward and attended by her mother (and which was to evolve into the British War Relief Society), a reception organised by her mother for Mrs Roosevelt at the American Women's Club and watching air raids, including one which destroyed the Egyptian embassy building near to their flat (September 1940) and another, when a V2 rocket exploded close to where they were lunching in Cavendish Square.
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Ts memoir (284pp, written in the 2000s but based on diary entries from the time and extracted from a much larger account) covering the years 1939 - 1948, when she was a schoolgirl attending the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, with whom she was evacuated to Newquay, Cornwall (September 1939) and then to Stanford Hall in Rugby, Leicestershire (c. 1940), but focusing on the holidays, which she spent with her parents at their home in Mayfair, London and recalling her apparently halcyon, middle class childhood spent there. References to the war are few but the account includes extremely good descriptions of both shopping and dining in the West End during this period (including vivid descriptions of some of those establishments she and her family frequented), trips to visit friends in both Newnham, Hampshire and Colchester, Essex, a visit by the Queen to a knitting club established by Mrs Dudley Ward and attended by her mother (and which was to evolve into the British War Relief Society), a reception organised by her mother for Mrs Roosevelt at the American Women's Club and watching air raids, including one which destroyed the Egyptian embassy building near to their flat (September 1940) and another, when a V2 rocket exploded close to where they were lunching in Cavendish Square.
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