About Betty Kenward
Lived 1906 – 2001 (aged 94). Betty Kenward was a journalist and columnist.
Elizabeth Kenward ( Kemp-Welch; 1906–2001) was an English magazine columnist, known for writing "Jennifer's Diary", originally in Tatler, subsequently in Queen.
Life She was born on 14 July 1906, the daughter of Brian Charles Durant Kemp-Welch of Kineton, Warwickshire, England, and was educated by a governess, and at a finishing school at Les Tourelles, Brussels, Belgium. The Kemp-Welch family were 'solid county Warwickshire stock', appearing in Burke's Landed Gentry. of the 14th/20th King's Hussars, employed in his family's brewing business, at St Margaret's, Westminster, in 1932, and in 1958 to Bridget Catherine Elizabeth Tucker (1928–2015).
Her Tatler column was originally called "On and Off Duty in Town and Country", becoming "Jennifer's Diary" in 1945.
She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1986.
She died on 24 January 2001 in London.
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