Wednesday 24th September 2014<\/p>\n
We mourn the loss of Debo. Robert Nevil couldn’t bear her but she wrote the best opening of any newspaper article in the Graph<\/em> ever: ‘What are tiaras for?’<\/p>\n She couldn’t stand reading. Evelyn Waugh gave her a copy of his biography of Ronald Knox;she remarked, ‘I would have looked no further but a friend who was with me at the time happened to notice that all the pages were blank: the perfect present for the non-reader.’<\/p>\n Non-reading turned out to be an excellent starting point for writing at which she was very good.<\/p>\n It must have been in 2010 that I went all the way in my Official Car to Chatsworth from London and back in a day because someone told me that if you went to Edensor village open day and fete you would see her and she’d give you eggs (or her butler would). But by the time I got there she’d gawn in and there was a notice saying, ‘The house isn’t open this year – sorry.’ I always meant to go again the following year to Edensor village fete but never did.<\/p>\n Now she will lie in the churchyard next door to her final residence. As she used to say latterly, ‘Not far to go.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday 24th September 2014 We mourn the loss of Debo. Robert Nevil couldn’t bear her but she wrote the best opening of any newspaper article in the Graph ever: ‘What are tiaras for?’ She couldn’t stand reading. Evelyn Waugh gave her a copy of his biography of Ronald Knox;she remarked, ‘I would have looked no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}