Violet Valerie Kindersley (13 February 1909 – 18 July 1997), née French, and known from 1931 to 1934 as Lady Brougham and Vaux, was a Natal-born English socialite.

[1] Violet Valerie French was born on 13 February 1909[2][3] at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa,[4] the daughter of English cricketer Lt Col the Hon Edward Gerald Fleming French, Deputy Governor of Dartmoor Prison and Governor of Newcastle Prison (1883–1970), and Leila Elizabeth Fyfe King (d. 1959), daughter of Robert King, of Natal, South Africa.

[6][7] In 1933, she was included, together with her sister, in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton, which documented the "Bright Young Things" socialites of the 1920s.

Beaton wrote: "Valerie, pink and white like sugar-coated almonds, with slow, brown eyes and pale corn-coloured hair, has the more flawless face.

[2][7] They had one son, Julian Henry Peter Brougham (1932–1952), who was killed while on active service in Malaya in 1952, aged 19.