Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham

1932 - Yes, date unknown    Has more than 100 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham
  Birth	27 Aug 1932
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Earl Thomas Frank Dermot Pakenham,   b. 14 Aug 1933   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Valerie Susan Scott,  m. 23 Jul 1964 + 2. Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham,   b. 27 Aug 1932   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser,  m. 25 Sep 1956 ;   Harold Pinter,  m. 1980
  Person ID	I575282	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2010

  
  

  Father	Earl Francis Aungier Pakenham,   b. 5 Dec 1905   d. 2001 (Age 95 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Harman,   b. 30 Aug 1906   d. 23 Oct 2002 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	3 Nov 1931
  Family ID	F253334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser,   b. 23 Jan 1918   d. 6 Mar 1984 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1956
  Divorce	1977
  Children	1. Benjamin Fraser   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Damian Fraser   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Living   4. Rebecca Fraser   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Flora Fraser   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Natasha Fraser   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F246892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Harold Pinter,   b. 10 Oct 1930, Hackney, London, Middlesex, England d. 24 Dec 2008 (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	1980
  Family ID	F253325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2008

  
  

• Notes

  historian On October 22, 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy , who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington , West London , were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9am when he left the house; the bomb exploded prematurely when it was examined and accidentally set off by a passerby, the respected cancer researcher Dr Gordon Hamilton-Fairley , who was walking his dog. Hamilton-Fairley died. In 1975, Antonia Fraser met and began an affair with playwright Harold Pinter , who was then married to the actress Vivien Merchant , resulting in fodder for the British tabloid newspapers. In 1977, after she had been living with Pinter for two years, the Frasers' union was legally dissolved. Merchant spoke about her distress publicly to the press, which quoted her cutting remarks about her rival, but she resisted divorcing Pinter. In 1980 , after Merchant signed divorce papers, Fraser and Pinter married. They still live in the Fraser family home, in Holland Park . In some social circumstances, she uses her married name "Antonia Pinter". Antonia Fraser's first major work was Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1969 ). Following that book, she published several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men ( 1973 ). She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England . She was President of English PEN from 1988 to 89 , and was Chairman of its Writers in Prison Committee. She also writes detective novels , with the most popular involving a character named Jemima Shore . A television series based on these stories was aired in the UK in 1983 . In 1983-1984 she was president of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. More recently, Fraser published The Warrior Queens, the story of various military royal women since the days of Boadicea and Cleopatra . In 1992 , a year after Alison Weir 's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title, which British historian Eric Ives cites as the more impartial account. She chronicled the life and times of Charles II in a well-reviewed 1979 eponymous biography. The book was cited as an influence on the 2003 BBC / A&E mini-series, Charles II: The Power & the Passion, in a featurette on the DVD, by Rufus Sewell who played the title character. Fraser has also served as the editor for many monarchical biographies, including those featured in the Kings and Queens of England and Royal History of England series. Fraser later published The Gunpowder Plot : Terror and Faith in 1605. Two of the most recent of her thirteen non-fiction books are Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001, 2002), which has been made into the film Marie Antoinette (2006), directed by Sofia Coppola , with Kirsten Dunst in the title role, and Love and Louis XIV : The Women in the Life of the Sun King (2006). From 1979 to 1990 she was a panelist on the BBC Radio 4 panel game My Word! , taking the chair for one season in 1983.