“The gypsy lady who rocked the boat,” by David Platzer

“The gypsy lady who rocked the boat,” by David Platzer

Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph and the founder of the newspaper’s Sunday version, who became Baron Hartwell, claimed she came from “the people,” as her daughter Harriet Cullen details in Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power. Pam’s father, F. E. Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), was a self-made man; his great-grandfather had been …