Lady Anne was our very own Mata Hari on a bicycle, to whom dementia was life’s greatest gift
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As a boy, I knew too well the flipside of this elegance: snobbishness and superiority. Appearances were everything; social class was her religion; to be lower class was a moral failing. This, along with a frosty, condescending manner to anyone who offended her led to bitter arguments between us and a long period of alienation. For the past few years, though, I had been trying to repair our relationship, which is why I’d flown to Ireland that year.
Dementia seemed to give her an acute sense of the absurd, and she found herself the most absurd thing of all, happy to be teased, ready to poke fun at her own foibles. And so the legend grew, of Lady Anne’s exotic past as a wartime femme fatale, like the courtesan and spy Mata Hari.
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