Dorina Neave

They resided in the "Edip Efendi Yali", one of the "water mansions" of Constantinople built on the shores of the Bosphorus in the Tulip period.

Her dower house (Dagnam Priory) and Llys Dulas had also been requisitioned, leaving Lady Dorina homeless.

When Anthony Eden opened the Turkish House (Londra Türk Halkevi)[9] in Fitzhardinge Street to foster Anglo-Turkish relations, he requested Lady Dorina's help.

Sir Wyndham Deedes, the Chairman of the Halkevi, asked her to undertake the social side of the Turkish House.

[7] Apart from her books about Turkey, Lady Dorina has historical significance as the last of the "landed gentry" to live in Dagnam Park, before the policies of Britain's post-war Labour government constrained her to reside in her second home in Anglesey, owing to a compulsory purchase order made by the LCC.

[8] Many features of the estate are only remembered via Lady Dorina's memoirs, including a bathing pool which locals originally believed to be a fish pond.