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Lady Myra Idina Sackville (26 February 1893 – 5 November 1955) was an English aristocrat and member of the Happy Valley set. Her behaviour and lifestyle scandalised upper class society. [citation needed] Early life. Lady Myra Idina Sackville was born on 26 February 1893 and was known by her middle name, Idina.
- Lady Myra Idina Sackville, 26 February 1893
- David John Wallace, Gerard Euan Wallace, Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll
- 5 November 1955 (aged 62)
- Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr, Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey
Jul 21, 2009 · Lady Idina Sackville's five husbands and life of high-society debauchery in colonial Kenya scandalized the Edwardians, inspiring more than one novel. The Bolter, her hard-to-put-down...
- Jessa Crispin
Apr 30, 2024 · Born on 26 February 1893 to Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr, and the former Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, Idina was soon known as the enfant terrible of Edwardian society. Five-foot-three, notorious for her dazzling figure, and unperturbed by her ‘shot-away chin’, Osborne describes how Idina ‘threw herself into the rounds of bals ...
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A Scottish peer and notorious philanderer, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (1901–1941) abandoned his diplomatic career in Britain and scandalised society when he eloped with a married woman, Lady Idina Sackville. The couple were married in 1923 and relocated to Kenya in 1924.
Apr 15, 2024 · Lady Idina Sackville Lady Sackville, a British aristocrat and daughter of the 8th Earl de la Warr, caused a stir in society with her scandalous actions. Her divorce from her first husband, Euan Wallace, resulted in her losing custody of her two sons, who tragically perished in World War II.
In the Nancy Mitford novels there is a character called the Bolter. She is the narrator’s mother who lives in Kenya and parks her daughter on an unmarried aunt. She is always falling for unsuitable men, white hunters and people called Juan. The real-life Bolter was Lady Idina Sackville, and Frances Osborne is her great-granddaughter.
Lady Idina Sackville, the daughter of the 8th Earl De La Warr and cousin of the poet Vita Sackville-West, had caused immense scandal at home by ditching her second husband to run off to Kenya with a lover eight years her junior, the future Earl of Erroll, Josslyn Hay (more — much, much more — on him later).
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