White Mischief (47 page)

Clouds: Joss and Idina’s house in the Aberdare mountains, which from 1925 was the headquarters of Happy Valley.

Alice de Janzé with her daughters, Paola (
right
) and Nolwen, shortly before Alice left them to take up permanent residence in Happy Valley.

Muthaiga Country Club in the late 1920s—the stronghold of the up-country settlers.

The veranda, with sleeping figure, of Oserian, the ‘Djinn Palace’, on Lake Naivasha.

Idina, Countess of Erroll, the guiding light of Happy Valley.

The inner circle (
front row, from left
): Alice de Janzé, Idina Erroll, Joss Erroll, Michael Lafone.

Josslyn Victor Hay, later Earl of Erroll and hereditary High Constable of Scotland, aged twenty-three.

Sir Jock Delves Broughton and Vera, Lady Broughton: their last public appearance together in 1938, at the marriage of their daughter.

The house at Karen leased by Broughton soon after his arrival in Kenya in 1940.

Joss Erroll and his second wife, Molly, on a return visit to London from Kenya in 1937.

White Highlands settlers, mid-1930s, including,
third from left
, Patricia Bowles.

June Carberry in 1930, the year of her marriage.

Sir Jock Delves Broughton in 1938.