She was born: Lady Diana Manners, 1892 to the 8th Duke of Rutland and Violet Lindsay. The biological father belives to have been the writer Henry Cust. In Diana's prime she had the reputation at the most beautiful young womand in England.
She became active in The Coterie, an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals of the 1910s whose prominence and numbers were cut short by the First World War. One of these was Duff Cooper that she later got to be married to.
Diana was not only a socialite but also and actress:
The Virgin Queen (1923)
The Glorious Adventure (1922)
The Great Love (1918)
Her beauty though was un-self-conscious, filled with authority, enhanced by style, animated by eccentricity and joie de vivre. Lady Diana had the kind of charisma we know as glamour, which may be our last vestige of the noumenal. You might say that she was simultaneously a saint and a genius of pleasure.
There are only SO many of these beauties. She is one!!
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