The Other Mitford (25 page)

Pam (third from right) enjoying the Chatsworth Game Fair in the 1980s with her close friend Margaret Budd (on her left). The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire are on the left of the picture. (Photograph courtesy of William Cooper and the executors of Margaret Budd’s estate)

Animal lover Pam in conversation with a dog at the home of a friend in the 1980s. (Photograph courtesy of William Cooper and the executors of Margaret Budd’s estate)

Pam’s gravestone in Swinbrook churchyard. The inscription reads ‘a valiant heart’. (Photograph by Christopher Fear)

Woodfield House at Caudle Green in Gloucestershire where Pam spent a contented old age. (Photograph by Christopher Fear)

The ‘secret door’ into Pam’s vegetable garden at Woodfield House. It was designed and made for her by Philip St Pier. (Photograph by Christopher Fear)

Swinbrook church which the Mitford family attended as children and where most of them are buried. Tom’s name appears on the war memorial. (Photograph by Christopher Fear)

Asthall Manor, the house which the Mitford family really loved and hated leaving. (Photograph by Christopher Fear)

Pam in a rather serious moment, sitting beside her pale blue Rayburn in her kitchen at Woodfield House. The cabbage is real, the pig’s head, in this instance, is a china one. (Photograph courtesy of William Cooper)

Pamela in the early 1930s. In terms of looks she was a close rival to her sister Diana. (Copyright the Mitford Archive 2011)

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