5/13/2023 0 Comments Harold pinter and antonia fraser![]() ![]() ![]() “We have a lot of really energetic but also clinical, even pedantic, debates about language. “Well, of course Antonia has a brilliant mind,” Pinter explained in an interview four years before his death. Pinter’s wife Vivien was a respected actress who never recovered from her devastation at losing her much-loved husband with whom she had suffered years of financial struggle before he found success. Hugh Fraser, to whom Antonia had been married for 19 years was a Tory MP and a descendant of Scottish aristocracy. The fallout of their affair was magnified by the fame of their respective spouses. It didn’t matter where we came from, it mattered where we were going.” I can’t think of two more different things than the plays of Harold Pinter and the historical biographies of Antonia Fraser. “I find Harold a very interesting person which is not surprising. She was the main breadwinner at the beginning: Pinter would take their infant son Daniel to the theatre so she could breastfeed him before performances.Ī few months before Pinter’s death, Lady Antonia, 77, reflected on what it was that had made their relationship so long and happy. ![]()
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