TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holderness,Diana
TI  - The Ritz and the ditch: a memoir 
SN  - 9780992949761
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - York
PB  - Stone Trough Books
KW  - Holderness, Diana,
KW  - Wood, Richard Frederick,
KW  - Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley,
KW  - Politicians' spouses
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Politics and government
N2  - "Although Diana Holderness's glamourous parents, Myrtie and Flash Kennett, hunted with the Prince of Wales, the family fortunes fluctuated wildly and sometimes her pocket-money was stopped. Her parents preferred these extremes to the humdrum middle. They liked 'The Ritz and the ditch'. In 1947 she married Richard Wood, the youngest son of Lord Halifax, formerly Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary, and wartime Ambassador to Washington. Richard was elected MP for Bridlington in 1950 and held minsterial office under three Conservative leaders. Diana provides an insider's view of the Wood family, especially of her father-in-law with whom she got on well; but ultimately it is her own personality that shines through. Spry, outspoken, enterprising, given to high-voltage likes and dislikes, occasionally lawless, she seems to have feared nothing except air travel and horses. These qualities make for a lively read." --
ER  -