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Antonia Fraser

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The Resume

    (August 27, 1932- )
    Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford
    Wrote ‘Mary Queen of Scots,’ ‘The Warrior Queens,’ ‘The Weaker Vessel,’ ‘Cromwell, Our Chief of Men,’ ‘The Gunpowder Plot,’ ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII,’ and the Jemima Shore mystery series

Why she might be annoying:

    She left her husband, Hugh Fraser, for playwright Harold Pinter.
    Pinter’s wife at the time, Vivian Merchant, disparaged her in the press.
    She describes herself as a ‘hopeless cook.’
    Her book on Henry VIII’s wives appeared a year after Alison Weir’s book on the same topic.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her book ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ is considered to be the definitive biography on the subject.
    She is a feminist.
    She attended Oxford University.
    She continued her writing career while raising six children.
    She does all her own research.
    She says that if she’d been Henry VIII’s seventh wife, ‘I hope I would have managed to do the monster in.’
    Her parents, the Earl and Countess Longford, her brother, Thomas Pakenham, her sister, Rachel Billington, and her daughter, Flora Fraser are also writers.

Credit: The Truffle


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 37 Votes: 54.05% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 38 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 61 Votes: 60.66% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 129 Votes: 56.59% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 50 Votes: 64.00% Annoying