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With the scandal of their adulterous affair fading into memory, Lady Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter were finally free to enjoy their great romance.
In our fourth extract from the most eagerly awaited book of the year, she recalls her long-delayed wedding to the award-winning playwright, some eye-opening lunches with royalty and a very unorthodox visit to the British Library:
SEPTEMBER 26, 1980
We had a merry time planning our wedding party at Campden Hill Square. It was to take place on the eve of Harold’s 50th birthday.
Went to Jean Muir’s salon and had a fitting for my ‘wedding dress’ — actually a swirling white crepe number, high neck, scattered crystal new moons and stars — which I will wear at the party. I shall feel like Titania.
It was just as well we planned both the wedding and Harold’s birthday together, because there was a final flick of
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