Pamela Wyndham, Baroness Egremont

Her father was the younger son of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, and her mother was the daughter of Ernest George Pretyman, a Conservative Party politician and MP, and a former civil lord of the Admiralty.

[2] He was not able to serve in the armed forces due to poor eyesight, and had spent the war working for Harold Macmillan, a connection that was to continue until his death in 1972.

[2] They married in 1947, when he was employed in the Conservative Research Department, and resided in London until 1952, when Lord Leconfield died, and they moved into Petworth House.

[2] In 1963, her husband was created Lord Egremont in Macmillan's retirement honours list, reviving an old family title.

[2] In 1978, she handed over the running of Petworth to their elder son, Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (also known as the author Max Egremont), and moved to the family estate of Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria, where she restored the interiors and rejuvenated the gardens, and kept her house in Pimlico, London.