Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1992,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is an aristocrat. She was born, wealthy and grew up in glamour.

At the age of 16 a national newspaper printed her photograph with a caption that read,

Is This the Most beautiful girl in Britain.

She married her childhood sweetheart,

a Marquis, who suddenly and reluctantly

had to take on the management of his family's vast public estate.

Four years ago, he suffered a stroke and was given six hours to live.

His wife believed he would not die.

With love and determination, she nursed him back to health.

It was a profound experience, one which she says

made her feel useful for the first time in her life. She is the Martianess of Tavistock.

Your husband, Lady Tavististock was given a 1% chance of survival.

What made you so certain that he would live? Oh, I wasn't certain at all when I was wrung up and told.

I just, from the moment I saw him when I got back to London

that night, I can't explain he had such a look of peace on his face and they didn't seem to be any distress and I didn't feel from the

moment I'd seen him that he was going to die. But when you say that in your

introduction it was a lot of help that I got that helped me bring him back to life too.

I couldn't have done it without the most incredible help from our children and also a lot of friends and the medical profession.

I mean it was incredible teamwork and him too. I mean he was determined.

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