James Thomas Brudenell, seventh Earl of Cardigan

Excerpts from FID 's war correspondence (letters from Crimea to her sister ) appeared anonymously in the Morning Advertiser. She had to stifle laughter when Lord Cardigan , unsuspecting, read her own words aloud to her.

The letters to Selina, often written over several days, tend to range widely as to topic. They are naturally more outspoken than the diary in its published version. In June 1854 FID was already...

Despite Francis Marx's editing, the printed book pulls few punches. In Lord Cardigan 's infamous sore-back reconnaissance, an arbitrary forced march of excessively-loaded men and horses which disabled many of each, she diagnoses much...

At the end of the month they were off again to encamp at Varna, after Lord Lucan had forbidden FID to accompany the regiment and Lord Raglan had countermanded his order, saying he would...

She was the only officer's wife to go through the whole campaign in proximity to her husband, though plenty of others visited during summer 1855. Months before that, she was annoyed when the United Services...