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Lady Antonia Fraser (Pinter), CBE (born August 27, 1932, as Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham) is a British author of history and novels, best known as Antonia Fraser for writing biographies and detective fiction, and the second wife of Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
<p>Lady Antonia is the daughter of the late Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, and his wife, the late Elizabeth Harman. As the daughter of an earl, Antonia Fraser's title (form of address) is "Lady Antonia". Like all her siblings, she became a child convert to the Catholic Church.
<p>Lady Antonia was educated at St. Mary's Convent, Ascot and Dragon School, Oxford, before graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, also her mother's alma mater.
<p>In 1956, Lady Antonia married Scottish Catholic aristocrat and MP Sir Hugh Fraser (1918-1984). Sir Hugh was a Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons, sitting for Stafford. During her marriage to him, which ended in 1977, they had three sons,...
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