Cooper, Diana

Lady Diana Cooper was born on August 29th, 1892, daughter ostensibly of the son of the 8th Duke of Rutland, in fact of the Hon. Harry Cust. Defying all her mother s efforts to stop her, she became a nurse at Guy s Hospital during the First World War and married Alfred Duff Cooper, DSO, son of a surgeon from Norwich, who became one of the Second World War s key politicians. Her startling beauty resulted in her playing the lead in two silent films and then Max Reinhardt s The Miracle. For the war effort, Diana converted their seaside cottage in Sussex into a small farm. In 1944, following the Li...