Youngest Man-About-Town

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7062, 9 November 1929, Page 15

Youngest Man-About-Town

Lady Di’s Son Has Bachelor Flat at Age of One-Day. No baby, in recent years, has received so much publicity as Master Duff Cooper, the son of Lady Diana Duff Cooper who as Lady Diana Manners has been a reigning beauty in England and America for many years. In America, Lady Diana won much acclaim for her performance in “The Miracle." HONDON’S most famous young- man - about - town was sleeping too peacefully to be interviewed. Only a few relatives and close friends of liis father and mother had seen Master Duff Cooper, who was exactly a day old when a representative of the “Daily Chronicle” called to interview him. Among the first to see him was his grandmother, Violet Duchess of Rutland, the mother of Lady Diana Cooper. He is the youngest young-man-about-town with a bachelor flat of his own. That is what his nursery suite at his mother’s house in Gower Street, Bloomsbury, really amounts to. It consists of a pleasant day nursery, decorated in a soft shade of green, a night nursery of “broken white” warmed by rich pink curtains, and a bathroom. Both Master Duff Cooper and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, who are in the nursing home in Portland Place directed by Almina Countess of Carnarvon, were stated to be “going on nicely.” Lady Diana designed her young son’s “bachelor suite” herself, and her last act before going to the nursing home was to adorn his small cradle with ribbons. More flowers than could possibly be found room to. hi her bedroom reached the nursing home. There were flowers from Belvoir Castle, the Duke of Rutland’s seat, Lr^uets

from stage celebrities, and flowers “by radio” from tlie United States, where Lady Diana is, as the Madonna of “The Miracle,” famous and admired. The important question of what to call Master Duff Cooper is to be decided at a family conference. Had he been a girl he (or rather she) would have been Jane. “John,” I understand, is a likely choice for one

of his Christian names, hut there are family wishes to be considered first. His beribboned cradle dates back to the year 17S0, and has been in his family for many years. It was his mother’s when she was a very tiny “Lady ‘Di’.”