Once back in England, Diana continued to have fun. Her host family admired her enquiring mind and thought she was a very intelligent and interesting girl. Once Diana had done the deed, she wrote ruefully to Winston, ‘I am no longer your Gold Cream Kitten but your Goldless Cream Kitten.’Įnjoying Parisian culture, Diana was stimulated by visits to the theatre, art galleries and museums and, away from her family, she shone. However, Clementine could not preach because she had already shingled hers. Although girls across the country were shingling, it was considered slightly transgressive in upper-class circles. The short, curly hairstyle was all the rage and two her Mitford cousins, Nancy and Diana, had done it. Determined to be fashionable, she wrote to her parents telling them she wanted to have her auburn plaits cut off and shingle her hair. Her letters exuded enthusiasm for everything her new life had to offer.
These were carefree days when she was able to develop her own identity away from her overpowering family. To gain the polish required to make her debut in society, Diana was sent to stay with a family in Paris. She has a wonderful charm and grace, which grows now perceptibly from month to month. Nature is mysteriously arming her for the ancient conflict. When Diana was 16, Winston wrote to Clementine that he did not know which one of his daughters he loved most:īut Diana is going to be a great feature in our lives in the next few years. Photo Credit: Fremantle_Alamy Stock Photo Next time you pass by do stop and give her a nod.Firstborn: Clementine with Diana as a baby, 1909.
Next to it there’s a green plaque bearing words from Michael explaining how it was built to honour the memory of Arabella, her dedication to the festival and her tremendous work establishing some of the best circus and theatre shows in the country at Worthy Farm over 30 years. If you stroll up to the Theatre Fields at Worthy Farm during the festival, you’ll come across the impressive humpback Bella’s Bridge which spans the Whitelake River and is constructed from old lock gates donated by British Waterways. Michael Eavis and Arabella Churchill's nephew Jack at the official opening of Bella's Bridge over the Whitelake River in 2010
I’m looking staggeringly pretty, very blonde… very thin because we’d been eating brown rice and veg.” “I know I was dancing on stage to Fairport Convention because I’ve seen it on the film. The festival had a really magical feel to it. The film crew had just turned on their huge lights and the stage looked like a wonderful shining diamond. He made me turn round and look back down the valley. “I remember walking up the hill the night before the festival with Bill Harkin. Aged 21, and feigning a nervous breakdown at her mother’s suggestion, she joined the ever-growing alternative-lifestyle throng at the farm and sank £4,000 from a family trust fund into purchasing the materials for Bill Harkin’s visionary Pyramid Stage and paying food and utility bills because no one else had any money.
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It was 1971 and Andrew Kerr, her father’s former literary assistant, was down at Worthy Farm at Pilton in Somerset staying with Michael Eavis and planning to stage a free summer festival with “cosmic significance” in one of the fields.Īrabella had already visited for the odd weekend and thought it would be the perfect place to disappear to. When Rolling Stone magazine got hold of the story, Arabella was bombarded by the press and needed to get away from London. Arabella, second from right, in New York in the 1960s with Jackie Kennedy, John F Kennedy Junior, her father Randolph Churchill and his assistant Andrew Kerr, who was also instrumental in the founding of Glastonbury Festival
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