Lady Winifred Fortescue was a writer and actress. She was also the wife of Sir John Fortescue, the Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian.
In the 1930s she and her husband moved to Provence, France beginning her book writing career with "Perfume from Provence". She wrote a number of other books whilst there. Her husband died within 2 years of them moving to France but she stayed on until forced to move out by the German invasion in World War II. She returned at the end of the war and died in Opio, Provence.
