Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather G
du Maurier, c. 1930
Six-year-old du Maurier (centre) with her sisters Angela (left) and Jeanne (right) and father Gerald du Maurier in 1913
du Maurier rowing near her Ferryside home in 1931
du Maurier arriving in the Netherlands in 1947
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was a British Army officer who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and t
Daphne du Maurier
…she was already a successful author by then, and spent most of 1936 in Alexandria with her family. Du Maurier married Major (later Lieutenant-General) Frederick "Boy" Browning in 1932. They had three children: Tessa (b. 1933), who married Major Peter Paul John de Zulueta. After they divorced, she married David Montgomery, 2nd…
Browning as General Officer Commanding, 1st Airborne Division, October 1942
Daphne du Maurier. Browning was inspired by the graphic depictions of the Cornish coastline in her novel The Loving Spirit.
King George VI inspects an airborne jeep fitted with a Vickers machine gun during a visit to the airborne forces in Southern Command, 21 May 1942, with Browning
Six-man parties of 1st Airborne Division paratroops marching toward General Aircraft Hotspur gliders of the Glider Pilot Exercise Unit RAF at RAF Netheravon in October 1942.