Penelope Chetwode

Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, Lady Betjeman (14 February 1910 – 11 April 1986) was an English travel writer.

[1][2] She was the only daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman.

[5] Chetwode travelled extensively in Himachal Pradesh, India, and wrote Kulu: The End of the Habitable World (1972), an account of her trek from Shimla to the head of the Rohtang Pass.

[9][10] Chetwode married Sir John Betjeman in London in 1933; the two had become acquainted through their association with the Architectural Review magazine.

[11] Chetwode died at village Mutisher, in Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1986, aged 76, while leading a group of tourists on a trek through the Himalayas.