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Shaun Usher
Dec 08, 2022
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4th July 1938: Lord Berners (1883 - 1950) painting a portrait of Penelope Betjeman (1910 - 1986), wife of poet John Betjeman, and her pony, in the drawing room of his Berkshire home. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Born in Hampshire in 1910, Penelope Chetwode was a celebrated travel writer, a journalist, a keen horse rider, and for some…

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