Daisy Waugh

Daisy Louisa Dominica Waugh (born 19 February 1967), known as Daisy Waugh, is an English journalist, travel writer, novelist and television presenter.

She has also worked as a restaurant critic and as an agony aunt for The Independent. On television, she has presented Channel 4's Travelog show and is also a contributor to BBC Radio 4.

A member of a literary dynasty, Waugh is the second daughter of the writer and journalist Auberon Waugh, by his marriage in 1961 to the novelist and translator Lady Teresa Onslow, daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow. Her elder sister is Margaret Sophia Laura (born 1962), while her brothers are Alexander Evelyn Michael (born 1963, a writer on music) and Nathaniel Thomas Biafra (born 1968). They are grandchildren of the author Evelyn Waugh and great-grandchildren of the publisher and literary critic Arthur Waugh, and the four are reported to have remained close.

Through her great-grandfather Aubrey Herbert, a British diplomat who was twice offered the throne of Albania, Waugh is descended from the Earls of Carnarvon and William the Conqueror.

Waugh grew up from the age of four at Combe Florey House, in Somerset, of which she has written: "It's an impressive-looking place: big and quite grand and pleasingly symmetrical, set at the top of a long, winding drive, with an Elizabethan gatehouse at the bottom and a small lake with a private island halfway up... With forbidden attics and vast cellars chock-a-block with hidden treasures, there was never any need for a nursery... My memories are of a house, underheated (to put it mildly), but always full of noisy cousins and glamorous, clever people, eating well and talking quickly."

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