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Revealed: Duff Cooper's secret second son Sixty years on, how the colourful diplomat fathered a child with a married American socialite
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AS A diplomat, author and minister, Duff Cooper's colourful
reputation was hardly a secret.
For sixty years, however, the full extent of the scandal
surrounding the legendary womaniser has remained unknown.
Until now, it had been thought that Cooper, a wartime minister in
Churchill's cabinet, had only one child - a son from his 35-year
marriage to Lady Diana Cooper, reputedly the most beautiful woman in
Europe. But he also had an illegitimate son, conceived while he was
the ambas...
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; *JOHN Julius Norwich is baffled by revelations in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Telegraph that his father Duff Cooper fathered another son by American socialite Susan Mary Alsop, but not because there's anything shockingly new about them. Lord Norwich's brother Bill Patten Jnr, 57, is a Unitarian
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A dedicated hedonist Duff Cooper was the consummate diplomat - except in his love life, says Selina Hastings
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D.C. Socialite Susan Mary Alsop Dies
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