Diana with the Duke of Rutland at Arlington Street in about 1616

Diana’s sisters Marjorie and Violet – ‘Letty’

Marjorie became Marchioness of Anglesey, Letty successively Lady Elcho and Lady Violet Benson

Diana’s mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland

Edward Horner, ‘strikingly handsome and with a good nature and bonhomie that shone from his face’

Henry Cust, a drawing of 1892 by the Duchess of Rutland

Patrick Shaw-Stewart, ‘pallid,  freckled, red-haired’

Diana a year or so before the end of the Great War.

Raymond Asquith – ‘Most noble in presence and with every grace of voice and manner,’ wrote John Buchan, ‘he moved among men like a being from another world’

Diana as Lady Beatrice Fair in her first colour film, The Glorious Adventure, 1921.

Motoring in France with Lord Wimborne in 1921

Diana electioneering, with her son John Julius voicing opposition.

Tending the pigs, a photograph by Cecil Beaton.

As the Madonna in The Miracle

A group photograph taken in California in 1926, at the time of The Miracle. From left to right: Kaetchen Kommer, Iris Tree, Max Reinhardt, Diana, Morris Gest.

Duff at work in the cottage near Bognor

Duff with Louise de Vilmorin in Paris.

At the Embassy in Paris with the Ernest Bevins

John Julius and Anne Norwich with their daughter Artemis in Beirut in 1950.

Diana in Venice, dressed for the Beistegui Ball.

The Madonna revived, with Lord Goodman at a fancy-dress ball in Wiltshire

With the neighbours (Lord Kinross and Sir Lennox Berkeley) protesting against an offensive road sign outside her house in Little Venice.

Diana at a party with the inevitable Doggie