Lady Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was an English socialite and actress.
Born Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners, she was officially the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife, the former Violet Lindsay, but Lady Diana's real father was widely supposed to be the writer Henry Cust. In her prime, she had the widespread reputation as the most beautiful young woman in England, and appeared i...
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Lady Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was an English socialite and actress.
Born Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners, she was officially the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland and his wife, the former Violet Lindsay, but Lady Diana's real father was widely supposed to be the writer Henry Cust. In her prime, she had the widespread reputation as the most beautiful young woman in England, and appeared in countless profiles, photographs and articles in newspapers and magazines.
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. Lady Diana was the most famous of the group, but it included Raymond Asquith (son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister), Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Edward Horner, Sir Denis Anson and Duff Cooper. Following the sudden deaths of Asquith, Horner, Shaw-Stewart, and Anson—the first three in the war;...
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