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Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, Lady Betjeman (14 February 1910 – 11 April 1986) was an English travel writer. She was the only daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman. She was born at Aldershot and grew up in northern India, returning to the region in later life. Career
28 de mai. de 2020 · Penelope Chetwode and ‘the perfect ADC’ (personal assistant) Posted on May 28, 2020 by Fay Curtis. by Pat Ellingham, Archives volunteer. Our volunteer, Pat Ellingham, found this story of the young Penelope Chetwode (later Lady Betjeman) in the photograph albums of Geoffrey Kellie, part of the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection.
25 de ago. de 2022 · A recently catalogued collection of India Office Private Papers is now available to researchers in the British Library’s Asian & African Studies reading room. This is the papers of Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, travel writer, tour guide, and historian of Indian temple architecture.
Penelope Chetwode: (AKA Lady B or Penelope Betjeman) Born: 1910 in Aldershot, England. Died: 1986 in Mutisher, India. Known as: Travel writer and wife of John Betjeman. Special Skills: Riding horses, trekking in India, writing about her travels. Penelope Betjeman is remembered as a Lady of Hay of the late 20th century.
15 de abr. de 2020 · In 1963, Penelope Chetwode was the last English woman to travel from Shimla to Kullu on a mule. An English woman, in those days on a mule trek with no companion, was a surprise for the locals. A local helper Bhagat Ram from Sanjauli, a suburb of Shimla, was there with her.
The courtship was conducted in Queen Anne's Gate, with Miss Chetwode in the street and Betjeman at an upper window. Naturally Penelope's father deep- ly disapproved of her even considering a...
31 de mar. de 2005 · But he had also begun to live a double life, sidelining his wife, Penelope Chetwode, a field marshal’s daughter (whom he nicknamed ‘Philth’) in favour of his mistress, the Hon. Elizabeth Cavendish, a duke’s sister (‘Phoeble’).
