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Last Clue to 1941 Kenya Murder Dies With Aristocrat
NAIROBI, Kenya — Lady Diana Delamere took with her to the grave any secrets she possessed about the unsolved murder of her aristocratic lover, an English earl whose death scandalized colonial Kenya 46 years ago.
“With her death, history has been robbed of the last witness to the events surrounding the murder of her lover, Lord Erroll,” author James Fox wrote in London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Lady Diana was 76 when she died of a stroke Sept. 3 in Ascot, England.
She was buried in the shade of a fig tree in a small cemetery she built at Soysambu Ranch, about 100 miles northwest of Nairobi.
Last to See Erroll
Born Diana Caldwell, she was married to the man accused of the murder and was the last person who acknowledged seeing Erroll alive. She did not testify at the trial of her husband, Sir Jock Delves Broughton, who was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Wellborn women, envious of her beauty and her attraction for men, cited her commoner background. To them, she was a scarlet woman who shamed society.
She was a striking beauty with cool, pale-blue eyes and a mass of blond hair, Fox wrote in his book “White Mischief,” which concluded that Broughton killed Erroll.
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Name: DELAMERE, Hugh George Cholmondeley 5th Baron, Lord
Nee: son of Thomas Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere
Birth Date: 18 Jan 1934 Kensington
Death Date: 7 Oct 2024 Soysambu
First Date: 1934
Profession: Farmer
Area: Soysambu, Elmenteita
Married: 11 Apr 1964 Mrs Ann Willoughby Tinné née Renison d. 24 May 2024 Soysambu (dau of Sir Patrick Renison, formerly Governor of Kenya). She had prev. m. Michael Patrick Tinné.
Children: Elinor (d. at birth Nakuru); Thomas Patrick Gilbert (19 Jan 1968-16 Aug 2016 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Debrett, mini-SITREP XII
School: Eton, Magdalene Coll. Camb. (MA Agric)
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mini-SITREP XII - Article on Delameres - anon? ..... still lives on the 50,000 acre farm his grandfather acquired at the turn of the century. ....... The ghost of Diana still haunts Soysambu, the family farm on Lake Elmenteita. Beyond the veranda, in a blaze of bougainvillea, is the swimming pool. 'It's heated' explained Lord Delamere. 'I can't stand cold swimming pools. When Diana lived here she never bothered with swimming so it was unheated. She just lay around with her pearls on and always said to me, "Hughie dear, won't you go swimming?" a