NOTE ON DATES

My father was born Frank Pakenham and was created Lord Pakenham of Cowley in 1945. He inherited the Earldom of Longford on his brother’s death in 1961. I then received the courtesy title of “Lady,” as in “Lady Antonia Fraser,” in March 1961 when I was thirty.

My seven siblings, all younger than me, were as follows:

Thomas b. 1933; Patrick (Paddy) b. 1937 d. 2009; Judith b. 1940; Rachel b. 1942; Michael b. 1943; Catherine Rose b. 1946 d. 1969; Kevin b. 1947.

I was married to Hugh Fraser MP, later Sir Hugh Fraser, from 1956 to 1975; Harold Pinter and I were together from 1975 until his death in 2008; we married in 1980.