Good looks and tight pantaloons: Lady Antonia Fraser's crush on her subject Earl Grey

 
Brithish writer Lady Antonia Fraser waves during the presentation of her book titled "Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter", in Mexico City, on January 07, 2010.The book will be sale the next January 11 in England. AFP PHOTO/Luis Acosta
21 May 2013

Lady Antonia Fraser has a new man in her life. On Radio 4’s Start the Week yesterday, presenter Anne McElvoy suggested to her that she seemed to have “a bit of a crush” on Earl Grey, prime minister at the time of the great Reform Bill and hero of her book Perilous Question. “I believe your friends have suggested an alternative title for the book,” added McElvoy.

On air, Lady Antonia would not be drawn - but last night at Daunt’s Marylebone bookshop, pressed by her interlocutor Valerie Grove (who noted the author’s breathless description of Grey’s noble good looks and tight-fitting white pantaloons), she confided that the alternative title was all her own invention: One Shade of Grey.

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