‘Alas, I missed the pleasure of D-Day as I used to be closely pregnant with my daughter, Annette, and wanted a interval of confinement. I didn’t return to Bletchley after standing down in May 1944, so I by no means anticipated official recognition or a pension, since we weren’t speculated to exist. It was made very clear to me at the outset, after I signed the Official Secrets Act, that if I divulged any details about my work there to anybody, I’d be shot. Consequently, neither my husband nor my household knew about my wartime work till a guide about
Bletchley was printed in 1975.’
Leslie Bonham Carter – The daughter of Condé Nast, 90, was born in New York. She was 9 when the conflict started.
Leslie Bonham CarterCecil Beaton / Condé Nast by way of Getty Images
‘During the conflict, rationing was accepted and regarded particularly reasonable. What was horrible was the Fifties, when it carried on and bread was exhausting to return by. And as a result of it was after the conflict, no one thought it was half of the conflict effort any extra, and it was simply grim. We did have a number of treats in these conflict years: at college there have been a quantity of Irish women, they usually had been despatched plenty of sweets as a result of there was no rationing in Ireland. And there was one thing known as Fry’s Chocolate Spread, which for some wild cause wasn’t categorized as a candy, nor did it come beneath the rationing factors system. So we used to get maintain of that.’
