Gradually the guests filtered away.

A very enjoyable dinner party at Rachel and Kevin's house in Addison Road: a long and convivial table. 'You should sue,' I told Harold. Doubleday/Courtesy of Antonia Fraser It was …

It had, actually. Already she was living with Harold Pinter, the playwright, whom she married in 1980. She paid no attention to Harold. He has a temperature of 102. Lemn Sissay is the winner of the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. [8][19] Benjamin Fraser works for JPMorgan, Damian Fraser is the managing director of the investment banking firm UBS AG (formerly S. G. Warburg) in Mexico, and Orlando Fraser is a barrister specializing in commercial law (Wroe). Supper party for friends. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser had barely just met when, on the evening of 8 January 1975, Harold uttered that short phrase which marked the start of a long love story. Harold, I learned much later, did not consider himself to be happily married. In 1975, Pinter left Merchant for Fraser, having previously had a long relationship with Joan Bakewell, an affair conducted in part in a flat in Kentish Town, London. They had six children: three sons, Benjamin, Damian, and Orlando; and three daughters, Rebecca Fitzgerald, wife of barrister Edward Fitzgerald, QC, Flora Fraserand Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni.

These were professionals and I was intensely nervous; a kind friend in the audience told me afterwards that my knees were visibly shaking in my natty white trouser suit which had perhaps been the wrong call as a costume. Pinter’s plays are often characterised as “menacing”. Seeing Campden Hill Square on TV that night, now looking wrecked and shattered, I felt the most terrible guilt for everything in the world. In the meantime she edited a series of writings: Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (1975), Scottish Love Poems (1975), Love Letters: An Anthology (1976), Heroes and Heroines (1980), Mary, Queen of Scots: An Anthology of Poetry (1981), and Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse (1982). She converted to Catholicism in her teens, following her parents' lead, and at the age of 23 she married Sir Hugh Fraser, a handsome Catholic, Scots nobleman and war hero with the SAS (Special Air Services). She was previously married to Harold Pinter and Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser. [4][10] She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England. Women's status was set back after his death. That marriage ended in scandalous circumstances after Lady Antonia left … They lived in London (when he was at the House of Commons) and in summer on an island in Inverness-shire, Scotland, owned by him.

This page was last modified on 2 January 2016, at 02:30. On the next occasion I heard Harold’s voice, once aptly described by Arthur Miller as his ‘awesome baritone’, before we met. Excerpted by permission of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved.

Orlando is a product of Lady Antonia's first marriage to the late Tory MP, Sir Hugh Fraser. She had achieved the total break, which was the last thing she wanted.

Depressing. But I said, 'No, it's not absolutely essential' -- and that changed my life.". In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title. Her mother, Lady Longford, had won the same prize five years before with a biography of Queen Victoria (1964). Pointless. They worried I might have gone under.
A great success. Harold sent her a letter of one sentence: 'Do not try to talk to me except through my lawyer.'.

'He attacked the attendant for opening the door in the middle of the recital.' I went totally white. Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser married in London on Nov. 27, 1980, five years after they first met.

When Fraser showed this last, little-known, film, she said her audience were particularly impressed. Antonia Fraser, Writer: Jemima Shore Investigates. But want to say: 'Thank you. But we haven't embezzled, faked death, and are not standing trial at the Old Bailey.'. One of those writings and moments is Pinter's poem, "Paris," about a trip they took to Paris in 1975. But we had few friends in common: Edna O'Brien was one, and the producer Sam Spiegel another. [2], As a teenager,[5] she and her siblings converted to Catholicism, following the conversions of their parents. They waited at the door. Hugh and I talked about money - frankly, we're both broke. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. But with Antonia Fraser, he was. The playwright had originally trained as an actor, first at Rada and then at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and continued to take acting work throughout his life. Tell Dada he knows nothing about the subject.'. 'What's alleged about it? Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser married in London on Nov. 27, 1980, five years after they first met. Telephone rings at 8am. It was difficult to avoid the conclusion that it was Vivien in 'Medea' mood with her colourful denunciations who had touched off the frenzy and allowed the press free rein. “No one could understand why it is not better known,” she said. At the end of the evening, neighbors offered her a ride home. Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter were married for 28 years before Pinter's death in 2009 from cancer. Harold's ex-wife Vivien Merchant claimed she was an alcoholic. I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak. Being an earl's daughter, I had to be on the right. Harold's birthday: I gave him Imperial Cricket bound in white vellum. Copyright 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. They were both in their early 40s and married -- though, not to each other -- with children. Required fields are marked *, Unable to display Facebook posts.Show errorfunction cffShowError() { document.getElementById("cff-error-reason").style.display = "block"; document.getElementById("cff-show-error").style.display = "none"; }, Founder & Artistic Director: Christine Reinhold Available for everyone, funded by readers. Fairley, a neighbour of the Frasers, had been walking his dog, when he noticed something amiss and stopped to examine the bomb. They were followed by A Splash of Red (1981) and Cool Repentance (1982). Pinter lived in Chiswick in the late 1950s with his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, and their son Daniel. Before his own conversion in his thirties following a nervous breakdown in the Army, as she explains, "My father was Protestant Church of Ireland, and my mother was Unitarian up to the age of 20 when she abandoned it. Some of Pinter’s early work was for television and was shown by ITV after Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Mummy: 'Of course Harold is exactly the sort of serious person Dada would like. ), Went to one New York party. To order a copy of this book (p&p free) for £18, call 0845 155 0720.

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