Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding (née Vivian, formerly Thynne; 11 July 1904 – 5 December 1997) was a British author.

Her parents separated when she was four years old and her father raised the children at Glynn, Cornwall, where the family were known as the 'mad Vivians'.

[1] Her paternal grandparents were Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian and the former Louisa Alicia Duff (sister of George William Duff-Assheton-Smith of Vaynol, and only daughter of Robert George Duff, of Wellington Lodge, Isle of Wight).

[2] She moved into the world of the "Bright Young Things" in the 1920s and produced a series of popular books about high society.

The adult part is rather as though Lord Montgomery were to write his life and omit to mention that he ever served in the army.