Juanita Carberry

Juanita Virginia Sistare Carberry (May 7, 1925 – July 27, 2013) was a Kenyan writer who later said that she knew who carried out a high profile murder. A BBC drama about the murder was told from her point of view. She published a book about her family, the Happy Valley set and the murder of Josslyn Victor Hay, the 22nd Earl of Erroll. She donated her dead body for exhibition.

Life Carberry was born in Nyeri in 1925. Her mother and her de facto father, John Carberry, Her father was Lord Carbery, (There is one R in the title and two in the family name.) Her mother had died in an air crash when Juanita was three. Her mother's family blamed Lord Carbery as he had persuaded her to perform in an air show. Her father did not care for the young Juanita and the family employed a governess for her. Her father would instruct the governess to inflict beatings on his daughter.

in 1941, when she was fifteen the murder took place. The murder was also the basis for a 1982 book and the 1987 film White Mischief.

She co-authored a "Child of Happy Valley: A Memoir" in 1991.

Carberry was a supporter of animal charities and the euthanasia society Dignity in Dying. She died in a London hospice where she complained that although they looked after her well they would not "put her down". She donated her tattooed body for exhibition by Gunther von Hagens.