An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
A vivid and moving portrait of the inimitable Lily Budge, who overcame poverty and class to become the 13th Countess of Galloway, and one of Scotland’s most colourful eccentrics.Randolph Stewart was lobotomized as a teenager after a crude diagnosis of schizophrenia. When the operation went wrong, he was hidden away by his aristocratic parents in a mental institution and then taken in by a sect of monks. By the time Lily Budge met him in 1975, he appeared a shy and lonely tramp. In reality he was the future Earl of Galloway, heir to a fortune and a title considered to be linchpin of the Scottish establishment. Lily, an extroverted character from a working-class family, would join him in a powerful bond of love that challenged conventions, made national headlines, and led to enormous heartache.A vibrant portrait of 20th-century Scotland, ‘An Unlikely Countess’ is also a profile of two unforgettable characters, and the doomed love that they shared.
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AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS
Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
LOUISE CARPENTER
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Contents
1 The Most Caring Place in the World
3 Virescit Vulnere Virtus: Valour Grows Strong from a Wound
7 Lobotomised Patients Make Good Citizens
10 Anglo-Catholic with Charismatic Overtones
14 Will the Earl Get a Crumb of Comfort?
16 I Would Have Hated to Commit Murder
17 We Have the Name Darling, but Alas, We do not Have the Game
19 Never Judge a Person until Youâve Walked a Mile in their Shoes
20 New Places to Wear Diamonds
P.S. Ideas, Interviews & Features â¦
Approaching Lily: Louise Carpenter talks to Louise Tucker
A Day in the Life of Louise Carpenter
An Unlikely Subject by Louise Carpenter
When youâre growing up in a small townYou know youâll grow down in a small townThere is only one good use for a small townYou hate it and youâll know you have to leave.
LOU REED, âSmall Townâ
On 15 May 1979, on a draughty platform at Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Lord and Lady Galloway, fresh to their titles and in a muddle with their luggage, were preparing to board a train headed for London. âIf I can have this opportunity of going to the House of Lords, I shall take it,â Lily Galloway had told their French lodger, Marie-Laurence Maître, in their tenement flat as she packed.
Lily, dressed in a bottle-green velvet suit, which was a touch thin at the elbows and cuffs, but brushed up on the lapels, struggled as usual with their trunks while Randolph Galloway walked ahead, hands clasped stiffly behind his back. If anybody had cared to study their expressions, in him they would have observed a vagueness, as if he inhabited another world, one he did not much care for but from which he could not escape, and in her the opposite, the alertness of a proficient nurse in constant anticipation of a crisis. Randolph was easily unsettled by noise and commotion â as a child he would become quite hysterical if a train blew its steam â and he was prone to wandering off. Lily would have to maintain vigilance.
