We are having tea and biscuits (a present from historian Kate Williams) in the drawing room of the house she and her first husband, Tory MP Sir Hugh Fraser, bought in 1959. At one point in our interview, when I ask whether she’s a feminist, she tells me, ‘I believe strongly – yes, passionately – that men are equal with women.’ As Antonia approaches her 90th birthday on 27 August, she still attacks life with the same daring, energy – and playfulness. ‘Yes,’ I say, and she goes on to make some outrageously daring bid – which she almost always wins. She will often declare to me across the card table, ‘Partner, do you subscribe to the philosophy that you only live once?’ For the last 10 years, I’ve played bridge with my cousin Lady Antonia Fraser at her house in Holland Park, west London.
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