As for her career, she started working as a general assistant to George Weidenfeld Publishers whose owner was a family friend. However, their marriage went through hard times and they got divorced in 1977 though by this time, she had already been living with playwright Harold Pinter. Together they had six children that included three daughters and three sons. As such, they usually shuttled between an island he owned in Inverness-shire in Scotland and London, when he had to attend to parliamentary duties. Her husband had been a parliamentarian representing the constituency of Stafford for several years. When she turned twenty-three, she got married to Sir Hugh Fraser, a Scottish war hero, nobleman, and handsome catholic that was fifteen years older than her. As a teenager, she had converted to Catholicism which was the religion of her parents. Her brother was a historian and Flora and Rebecca her two daughters also followed in their progenitors’ footsteps in becoming authors.įraser went to school at the Catholic convent before she proceeded to Oxford University from where she graduated with a bachelor’s in 1953. In addition to her other and father, Rachel Billington the novelist is her sister while another sibling is a feminist. As such, it was not surprising that Fraser would become an author given that she came from the Longfords, a family of writers. Elizabeth Pakenham her mother was the Countess of Longford and is known for writing several popular long-form biographical pieces on Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria, the Queen Mother, Churchill, and Wellington.

She was also known as an author and popular public crusader.

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