Lady antonia fraser biography for kids

British author and novelist (born 1932)

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (néePakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.

She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.^[2][3][4]

Family background and education

Fraser is the first-born of the eight children of The 7th Earl of Longford (1905–2001) and his wife, Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, née Elizabeth Harman (1906–2002).

As the daughter of an earl, she is accorded the courtesy title "Lady" and thus customarily addressed formally as "Lady Antonia".^[2]

As a teenager,^[5] she and her siblings converted to Catholicism, following the conversions of their parents.^[2][6] Her "maternal grandparents were Unitarians – a non-conformist faith wi