Edward Horner, whose sister married the Prime Minister's son, was a close friend of Duff Cooper, who recorded in his diary for Nov. 23rd 1917, how he was playing bridge when his sister came in and said: "Edward has been killed and Diana is waiting for you outside". 'I went down and found Diana standing by the area railings crying. We got into a taxi and drove away. I haven't cried so much since John was killed nor have I felt anything so deeply. After we had driven for some time we went back to her room in Arlington Street where we sat by the firelight talking a little and crying a lot. Edward meant so much in our lives. I loved no man better. His high courage and fine independence had so splendidly resisted the effects of the war that already he had begun to seem a glorious relic of the glorious past. By his death our little society loses one of the last assets that gave it distinction....
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