INTERVIEW
Lady Antonia Fraser: Read Spare? Meghan’s life is more interesting
With her daughter Flora Fraser, the celebrated historian — and widow of Harold Pinter — discusses her life and legacy at 90. By Julia Llewellyn Smith
Lady Antonia Fraser: “The royal family in the 18th century were more extreme”
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The Times
A Union Jack is draped across the front door of Lady Antonia Fraser’s home in Holland Park, west London, put out for the coronation, which she watched on television with various members of her dynasty — there are six children, 20 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. “I greatly enjoyed it,” she says. “My heroine was Penny Mordaunt. Someone said, ‘Do you want her to be queen?’ I said, ‘No, because she might be rather a handful for the queen, marching in with her sword.’”
At 90, it’s the second coronation Lady Antonia remembers. In 1953 she was a student at Oxford. “My father [Frank, 7th Earl of Longford, the prison reformer and — notoriously — friend of Myra Hindley] was in the House of Lords and
