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Lady Myra Idina Sackville (26 February 1893 – 5 November 1955) was an English aristocrat and member of the Happy Valley set. Divorced five times, Lady Idina's behaviour and lifestyle scandalised upper-class Edwardian society.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Born on 26 February 1893 to Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr, and the former Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, Idina was soon known as the enfant terrible of Edwardian society.
21 de jul. de 2009 · Lady Idina Sackville's five husbands and life of high-society debauchery in colonial Kenya scandalized the Edwardians, inspiring more than one novel. The Bolter, her hard-to-put-down...
24 de oct. de 2024 · In the Nancy Mitford novels there is a character called the Bolter. She is the narrator’s mother who lives in Kenya and parks her daughter on an unmarried aunt. She is always falling for unsuitable men, white hunters and people called Juan. The real-life Bolter was Lady Idina Sackville, and Frances Osborne is her great-granddaughter.
9 de may. de 2008 · A profile of Idina Sackville, a society beauty and a seductress who scandalised 1920s England. She was the model for Nancy Mitford's character "The Bolter" and the great grandmother of author Frances Osborne.
12 de ago. de 2010 · In the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, at her houses, Slains and Clouds, set high on a dusty Kenyan hillside in the region known as Happy Valley, Idina Sackville held legendary parties, rife with...
Idina Sackville’s relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idina’s compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak.
