The extraordinary story of Victoria Sackville is more tempestuous and exotic than that of her daughter, the writer Vita Sackville-West . Victoria was the illegitimate child of Lord Sackville of Knole and a Spanish dancer, Pepita, who died when Victoria was still a young girl. She grew up to be a beautiful and extrovert woman who, because of her origins, could never be quite respectable and who could never quite decide whether she wished to be so. By Martyn Wade.
(Diana Quick appears in Mrs Warren's Profession tomorrow on Radio 3)