Lady Almina Carnarvon's Famous Patients

The wonderfully eccentric Evie James, mother for four children, three daughters, and a son (  he being the equally eccentric Edward James, the artist and recluse ) was once asked by the family's nanny which child she wanted to accompany her to church.  Evie replied   " The one that goes best with my blue dress."

Evie James’ obituary writers describe her as “one of the best known of society hostesses. [i]   She was the eldest daughter of Sir Charles Forbes, the 4^th Baronet of Newe, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire Scotland; her mother was Helen, “one of the beautiful Moncreiffe sisters”[ii]. Her mother’s sisters all had titles including Georgina, Countess of Dudley, who was a notable Red Cross worker in the Great War and Louisa, Duchess of Athole.  Evie’s two sisters were Helen Blanche Forbes, later Mrs John Blundell Leigh and Mabel Susan Forbes, later Lady St Oswald.

Evie died at Alfred House, 7-9, Portland Place, London in the care of Almina, Countess of Carnarvon.