CELEBRATED WIFE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 42, 13 November 1941, Page 4

CELEBRATED WIFE

Lady Diana Duff Cooper Though nearly 50, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, who is expected to arrive in New Zealand shortly with her husband, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, looks nearer 35. She is tall and slim, her skin is unlined and her mannerisms youthful. Her husband, who is on a special Far East mission for the British War Cabinet, created little greater interest than his celebrated wife when they arrived together in Australia recently. Described as one of England’s loveliest and most intelligent women, with a natural flair for being “different,” she spoke in her first interview of her ambition to raise “ducks, fowls, cows, goats—and Cheddar cheese, too” —after the war. Speaking of rationing, Lady Diana said it was a grand thing, and everybody welcomed it. Nobody had to bother now and there was no struggle for clothes supremacy. Because of food rationing the women of England were becoming fatter. Before the war women picked at their food and thought first of their figures. Now they thought first of the food. “They eat whatever they can get,” she said. “They eat up whatever is on the table. There are no longer ‘left-overs.’ Look at me—l have put on weight since tbe war started.”