Lady Bonham-Carter was one of the. principal speakers at the conference of the Scottish Independent Liberals at Dumfries. What she said smelt too much of the lamp, but she delivered it with, good effect. Curiously enough, Lady Bonham-Carter has been thought by many to bear a resemblance to her stepmother, the brilliant Scots, woman who brought her up. The elder is dark and the younger pure blonde, but both are slender as reeds, both have the same air of belonging to the aristocracy of intellect. They are - more alike, indeed, than are Mrs. Asquith and brown-eyed, ivory-skinned daughter, Princess Antoine Bibesco, Miss Violet Asquith was seven years old when her widowed father married again, and she was carefully brought up in accordance with the views of her stepmother. When she kgs in her early twenties she figui as the heroine of a sad yomadnce. She had just (become engaged to tha youngest of Lord and Lady Aberdeen's sons when
motor accident. ie engagement joccived fetal, julurise in a was made public when it was known that the marriage could never take place. In 1915 she was. married with a great amount of ceremony and pageantry, considering that it was war time, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, to. her other's secretary, Mr. Maurice Bonham-Carter. ~The knighthood
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