Juanita Carberry

Juanita Carberry (born May 7, 1925 - July 27, 2013 in London ) is a Kenyan writer . She became known for her memoirs and her role in the affair of Josslyn Victor Hay (1901-1941), 22nd Earl of Erroll .

Life

The daughter from a rich family lost her mother in a plane crash when she was three years old. The stepmother beat her. During the boarding school years in England, Switzerland and South Africa, she experienced various harassment. At the age of fifteen she claims to have heard of Lord Erroll's confession. She kept it to herself until her memoirs were published.

The topic has been filmed and described several times. The BBC created a portrait of Carberry as a Fanny (auxiliary nurse) during the war and a documentation of her childhood in Kenya. She worked as a consultant for the film adaptation of Out of Africa . She hit the headlines at the age of seventy-seven when she announced that she would bequeath her body to Gunther von Hagens after her death .

Works

• Child of the Happy Valley , A Memoir by Juanita Carberry, with Nicola Tyrer, William Heinemann Verlag, London, 1999 ISBN 0-434-00729-3 published in German as
• Last days in Kenya. My childhood in Africa Translator Anneli von Könemann Ullstein Tb 2001 ISBN 3-548-36312-1 ISBN 978-3-548-36312-7 .

literature

• Errol Trzebinski: The Life and Death of Lord Erroll : The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder Fourth Estate Ltd 2000 ISBN 1-85702-437-0 .

Movie

• White Mischief, German: The last days in Kenya
• The Case of the Earl of Erroll

Web links

• Juanita Carberry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Meeting from a BDSM perspective (English)
• Review of the film: Happy Valley
• Meeting at goodreads
• Obituary in "The Telegraph"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.corpun.com/books4.htm
2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094317/
3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485540/