I strongly recommend this remarkable obituary of a clearly remarkable person, Nathalie Brooke née Benckendorff, who I knew only as the wheelchair-bound widow of Humphrey Brooke, the former Sectetary of the Royal Academy, who was forced to retire in murky circumstances in 1968. She would appear sometimes at exhibitions, but I had no idea, to my shame that a) she had lived so long and b) had had such an intellectually and socially formidable career, not least with the Centre for Policy Studies in its heyday, when conservatism was expected to have some intellectual content beyond coarseness, hectoring and bullying.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/amp/feature/nathalie-brooke?__twitter_impression=true
Thank you very much. I’d missed her obituary and am very glad to have it now.
What a remarkable woman! It’s good to know that Romilly has predecessors of real quality.