Had she been a celebrity in our Internet era, her scandalous lifestyle would have caused an even greater frenzy. Still, Lady Idina Sackville managed to stir plenty of shock and controversy in the tabloid newspapers of Edwardian England. Charming, intelligent, rich and seductive, Sackville was a descendant of one of England's oldest families, taking lovers and husbands as she pleased, eventually marrying and divorcing five times.
The title of a new biography, "The Bolter," written by her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne, comes from Sackville's habit of "bolting" from relationships once she had tired of them. The author never met her legendary relative, who died of cancer in 1955, 13 years before Osborne was born.
