Diana Forbes-Robertson (14 December 1914 – 9 December 1987) was a British writer. The daughter of Sir

Johnston Forbes-Robertson Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16 January 1853 – 6 November 1937''Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, Beauty And Grace in Acting'', Obituaries, '' The Times'', 8 November 1937.) was an English actor and theatre manager and husband of actress Gert ...

and Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, Lady Forbes-Robertson, both actors, she was born in

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and grew up in

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. She spent her early years with her sisters

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, Chloe and Maxine (known as Blossom) at Hartsbourne Manor, the home of her aunt

Maxine Elliott Maxine Elliott (February 5, 1868 – March 5, 1940) was an American actress and businesswoman. Early life Born Jessie Dermott on February 5, 1868, to Thomas Dermott, a sea captain and Adelaide Hill Dermott, she had a younger sister, actress G ...

, a wing of which was used exclusively by Miles's parents. She was educated at boarding schools and at a French school in London. In 1935, she married

Vincent Sheean James Vincent Sheean (December 5, 1899, Pana, Illinois – March 16, 1975, Arolo, Frz. of Leggiuno, Italy) was an American journalist and novelist. Career Sheean's most famous work was ''Personal History'' (New York: Doubleday, 1935). It wo ...

, an American journalist. The couple travelled to Spain, Czechoslovakia and other parts of Europe before moving to the United States. During their travels, Forbes-Robertson wrote for the '' New York Herald Tribune''. The couple divorced in 1946 and remarried in 1949. They had two daughters. She and her husband lived for a number of years in

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, where he died in 1975. Forbes-Robertson died at the age of 72 in St Stephen's Hospital in London from a stroke while also suffering from

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Selected books

* ''The Battle of Waterloo Road'' (1941) with photographs by

Robert Capa Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some t ...

* ''War Letters From Britain'' (1941), edited with Roger Williams Straus Jr. * ''A Cat and a King'' novel (1949) * ''My Aunt Maxine'' biography of her aunt

(1964)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Forbes-Robertson, Diana 1914 births 1987 deaths English women writers Writers from London