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Daphne Fielding

Hon. Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding, née Vivian (11 July 1904 – 5 December 1997), was a popular British author in the 20th century.

Fielding was the daughter of George Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian, and Barbara Fanning. She married, firstly, Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, on 27 October 1927; they were divorced in 1953. She married, secondly, Major Alexander Wallace Fielding on 11 July 1953; they were divorced in 1978. As a result of her first marriage, her married name became Thynne; after her second marriage it became Fielding.

She moved in the world of the "Bright Young Things" in the 1920s and produced a series of popular books about high society.


“It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.”
Daphne Fielding
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