Lady Idina Sackville

Lady Myra Idina Sackville (26 February 1893 – 5 November 1955) was an English and member of the Happy Valley set. Her behaviour and lifestyle scandalised middle class society.

Lady Myra Idina Sackville was the daughter of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr, and Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, and Anna Allnutt. She had two younger siblings, her sister Avice and her brother Herbrand. Her cousin was the writer Vita Sackville-West. She was known by her middle name, Idina. She married and divorced five times.

At the age of 20, she married on 26 November 1913 Captain Euan Wallace, taking his name. Their marriage produced two sons:

Lady Myra Idina Sackville designed Kildonan House, Barrhill, South Ayrshire with the architect James Miller in homage to her childhood home. She never saw the building finished, having split from Euan Wallace before its completion.

In 1919 she divorced Wallace and married on 27 March 1919 Captain Charles Gordon, becoming Idina Gordon. Wallace took custody of their sons and Idina moved to Kenya. She and Gordon divorced in 1923, without issue, and later that year she married Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll and was thus styled the Countess of Erroll. They had one child, Diana Denyse Hay (1926–78).

Idina divorced Lord Erroll in 1930 and their daughter was taken home to England to be raised firstly by her uncle The Earl De La Warr and then by her aunt Lady Avice Spicer in Wiltshire. Later that year on 22 November Idina married Donald Carmichael Haldeman. They divorced in 1938, without issue.

In 1939, she married William Vincent Soltau, who died on 1 August 1964. She divorced Soltau in 1946, without issue.

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