Lady Antonia Fraser
(1932-), WriterLady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham)
Sitter in 18 portraits
Historian, novelist and biographer. Her publications range from scholarly biographies, such as Mary, Queen of Scots (1969) and Marie Antoinette (2001) to detective fiction. She has won many awards, including the Wolfson History prize for The Weaker Vessel (1984), her study of seventeenth-century women. Fraser married the playwright Harold Pinter in 1980. She was awarded the Historical Association's Norton Medlicott Medal for services to history in 2000 and was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011.
Lady Antonia Fraser with her daughter, Natasha
by Olwyn Bowey
oil on canvas, 1966
NPG 6843
Lady Antonia Fraser; Sir Michael Holroyd
by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 29 April 1980
NPG P808
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80942
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80943
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80944
by Madame Yevonde
black and white reprint, 1956
NPG x131734
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, September 1956
NPG x14082
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print from original negative, September 1966
NPG x131997
by Patrick Lichfield
archival inkjet print, February 1967
NPG x128489
by Mark Gerson
modern bromide print, 1972
NPG x131998
by Eva Vermandel
C-type colour print, 10 October 2012
NPG x137229
Lady Antonia Fraser; Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 24 June 1937
NPG x80945
Related People
- Lady Rachel Mary Billington (née Pakenham) (sister)
- Catherine Rose Billington (niece)
- Nathaniel Kevin Billington (nephew)
- Sir Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser (husband)
- Natasha Antonia Fraser-Cavassoni (daughter)
- Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (father)
- Elizabeth (née Harman), Countess of Longford (mother)
- Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (brother)
- Lady Catherine Rose Pakenham (sister)
- Catherine Ruth ('Kate') Pakenham (niece)
- Hon. Kevin John Toussaint Pakenham (brother)
- Hon. Michael Aidan Pakenham (brother)
- Patrick Maurice Pakenham (brother)
- Harold Pinter (husband)
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