Lady Antonia Fraser on turning 90, playing charades with Churchill and the problem with Harry and Meghan
telegraph.co.ukHolland Park, west London. She will often declare to me across the card table, ‘Partner, do you subscribe to the philosophy that you only live once?’‘Yes,’ I say, and she goes on to make some outrageously daring bid – which she almost always wins.
As Antonia approaches her 90th birthday on 27 August, she still attacks life with the same daring, energy – and playfulness.
At one point in our interview, when I ask whether she’s a feminist, she tells me, ‘I believe strongly – yes, passionately – that men are equal with women.’We are having tea and biscuits (a present from historian Kate Williams) in the drawing room of the house she and her first husband, Tory MP Sir Hugh Fraser, bought in 1959.
The light, airy room, leading on to the garden, is full of photographs of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, alongside a charming drawing of a young Antonia by her uncle Henry Lamb, the artist, doctor and war hero.
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