Lady Mary Clive will be 100 on 23 August 2007 and will be celebrating with her twelve great-grandchildren and many nephews and nieces.

In CHRISTMAS WITH THE SAVAGES, which was first published in 1955, she fictionalised her memories of her own childhood Christmases in the years
before the First World War, which she and her five Pakenham siblings used to spend with her mother’s family at Middleton Park in Oxfordshire, with a pack of cousins.