On 4th July 1882 [his father] Alfred Cooper [aged 44] and [his step-mother] Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of James Duff 5th Earl Fife and Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay Countess Fife.
On 22nd February 1890 Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich was born to Alfred Cooper [aged 52].
On 3rd March 1908 [his father] Alfred Cooper [aged 70] died.
On 2nd June 1919 Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich [aged 29] and Diana Manners Viscountess Norwich [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of Henry John Brinsley Manners 8th Duke Rutland [aged 67] and Violet Lindsay Duchess Rutland [aged 63].
On 8th May 1925 [his father-in-law] Henry John Brinsley Manners 8th Duke Rutland [aged 73] died. His son [his brother-in-law] John [aged 38] succeeded 9th Duke Rutland, 9th Marquess Grandby, 17th Earl of Rutland, 9th Baron Manners of Haddon in Derbyshire, 3rd Baron Roos of Belvoir in Leicestershire. Kathleen Tennant Duchess Rutland [aged 30] by marriage Duchess Rutland.
On 15th September 1929 [his son] John Julius Cooper 2nd Viscount Norwich was born to Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich [aged 39] and [his wife] Diana Manners Viscountess Norwich [aged 37]. He married (1) before 1959 Anne Frances May Clifford (2) before 1st June 2018 Mary Makins, daughter of Roger Makins 1st Baron Sherfield and Alice Brooks Davis.
Before 18th September 1937 Lois Sturt [aged 37] had relationships with Reginald Herbert 15th Earl Pembroke 12th Earl Montgomery [aged 57], Prince George Windsor 1st Duke Kent [aged 34], Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich [aged 47] and Augustus John [aged 59].
On 22nd April 1940 [his brother-in-law] John Henry Montagu Manners 9th Duke Rutland [aged 53] died of pneumonia at Belvoir Castle [Map]. His son Charles [aged 20] succeeded 10th Duke Rutland, 10th Marquess Grandby, 18th Earl of Rutland, 10th Baron Manners of Haddon in Derbyshire, 4th Baron Roos of Belvoir in Leicestershire.
On 3rd November 1946 [his sister-in-law] Victoria Marjorie Harriet Manners Marchioness Anglesey [aged 62] died. She was buried at St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen [Map].
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In 1950 Count Alain Le Bailly de La Falaise [aged 45] and Maxime Birley [aged 27] were divorced following a series of her infidelities, including an affair with British ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich [aged 59].
The London Gazette 39592. Whitehall, July 8, 1952
The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 5th instant, to confer the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom upon the Right Honourable Sir Alfred Duff Cooper [aged 62], GCMG, DSO, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of VISCOUNT NORWICH, of Aldwick in the County of Sussex. [[his wife] Diana Manners Viscountess Norwich [aged 60] by marriage Viscountess Norwich of Aldwick in Sussex.]
On 1st January 1954 Alfred Duff Cooper 1st Viscount Norwich [aged 63] died. His son John [aged 24] succeeded 2nd Viscount Norwich of Aldwick in Sussex.
In 1986 [his former wife] Diana Manners Viscountess Norwich [aged 94] died.