Private Life
In 1910, Evelyn Suart married Gerald Gould, an Irish-born civil servant with the Foreign Office, who died of typhoid fever in 1916. They had one son (also named Gerald Gould) and two daughters. The elder daughter Diana Gould became a noted ballerina and was the second wife of Yehudi Menuhin. The younger, Griselda, became the second wife of the pianist Louis Kentner.
Evelyn Suart had no time for her children, and had so little understanding of the world that Diana found it hard to imagine how she and her siblings had been conceived. She told Griselda, "Don't think of her as a mother, think of her as a fascinating woman".
In 1920 she married a second time, to a naval officer, Cecil Harcourt. He had a prominent career, rising to the rank of Admiral in 1949. He was Head of the Military Government of Hong Kong in 1945-46, and became Second Sea Lord in 1948. He was knighted on 18 December 1945, and Evelyn Suart became Lady Harcourt.
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