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“Hello boys, I’m Gay, ” was how Gay Charteris troduced herself wh genue naivety to the Upper School boys at Eton when her hband, a former private secretary to the Queen, beme the provost 1978. She was born (Mary) Gay Hobart Margson on May 3 1919, the younger dghter of David Margson, a succsful Conservative polician who beme Government Chief Whip and Secretary of State for War, and later 1st Visunt Margson.
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The Margsons lived at Boddgton Manor Northamptonshire, where Gay enjoyed an idyllic childhood a hoe filled wh books and works of art, and where lively and clever iends me to stay. She was ted by a erns, her se the fiercely tellectual Marjorie Strachey, one of Lytton Strachey’s many siblgs, scribed by Virgia Woolf as a “vast, marsupial” figure; Gay never lost the tellectual cursy stilled her. Gay Charteris as a young woman.
A few days before Kg Gee VI’s Coronatn 1937 Gay was prented at urt and her mother gave her a magnificent g out ball at Claridge’s, attend by every element of London society cludg the De and Duchs of Kent, Neville Chamberla and his wife, and two future Prime Misters, Anthony En and Alec Douglas-Home, along wh guts such as Rex Whistler.
Dpe impretns om the Conservative MP Colonel H H Spenr Clay, Gay’s mother separated om David Margson 1938 and two years later they were divorced. After spells Paris, Vienna and Munich, Gay moved durg the war to Oxford, where she helped people who had been bombed out of their hom. The mands of the Royal Hoehold often left Gay Charteris alone, but she me to her own when her hband was appoted Provost of Eton.