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Article: A lady at the uprising
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- October 26, 1996
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Simon Courtauld meets the Countess of Listowel: writer, Hungarian, and present in Budapest 40 years ago
SHORTLY after her 92nd birthday last year, Judith, Countess of Listowel, wrote to tell me: 'I am not in a "chair", nor in a home. I am going to Hungary for four weeks to have a look at what seems to be a worsening situation.' Before we met, I knew only that she had been born de Marffy-Mantuano, of Hungarian parents, and that she had not been married to the socialist peer, Lord Listowel, since 1945.
This intrepid old lady continues to return to Hungary every year, despite having been mugged in Budapest three years ago. She went back again this summer, still unimpressed by her country's ...