©JPIMedia Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. The account details entered are not currently associated with an Irish Times subscription. When you have reset your password, you can, Please choose a screen name. Biography ; … Please enter your email address so we can send you a link to reset your password. Juanita Carberry revealed none of this until 1971, when she gave an interview to the journalist Cyril Connolly, who had been at Eton with Lord Erroll, and who, with a young reporter, James Fox, had written an article about the case for The Sunday Times . When Erroll drove off, Broughton shot him. Her natural mother, Maïa Anderson, had died in her own plane when Juanita was three. A film of the same name starred Charles Dance as the serial adulterer Hay and Greta Scacchi as his young lover, Diana Delves Broughton. “That last dinner was too much and brought home to him that he had really lost. As they walked out, she was surprised to see a pair of gym shoes with white rubber soles in the smouldering embers of a bonfire in the garden. Juanita Carberry was twice married. The truth remains a mystery as there are differing accounts of the events and many of the facts just do not tally. Although Broughton knew that his wife was planning to divorce him, something finally snapped after she and Erroll had dined and danced together on the night of the murder. He seems to have been a psychopath, being extraordinarily cruel not just to his only daughter but also to any vulnerable human and, perhaps most tellingly, to animals. He told me himself the following day. Throughout her life Carberry had maintained a great love of wild animals and the sea. Carberry became something else. But she withheld Broughton’s confession from Connolly, telling him that she did not want anything she said to be used against him. He had carried on an affair with Diana Delves Broughton and in January 1941 Erroll’s body was found slumped in the front of his car outside Nairobi. It covers the life of a colonial girl growing up in bizarre circumstances. According to Juanita Carberry, Broughton had confided in her only hours after Erroll’s murder, at a lunch party he hosted at his house in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi, attended by Juanita, her stepmother, June, and her governess. “We walked down to the stables,” she recalled. The others I’ve forgotten,” she said. Juanita Carberry believed that Broughton probably also told her stepmother about the murder because the gun — having been recovered by her stepmother’s servants — was found many years later in a shoebox at Malindi, on the coast north of Mombasa, in a workshop owned by her father. Her mother was killed in an air crash when she was three and Carberry was brought up by her sadistic “father” and a stepmother she assumed was her mother. Juanita Carberry was the daughter of John Carberry, an Irish noble who surrendered his title and moved to Kenya, settling in the White Highlands. Add a bio, trivia, and more. On leaving the service after 17 years, she became active in animal welfare and was an inspector of livestock transportation in ships that called at ports in Kenya. The Erroll murder was a gripping and glamorous scandal that shook the decadent Happy Valley coterie and marked the beginning of the end for Kenya’s hedonistic colonial elite, with its heavy drinking and cocaine-fuelled adulterous liaisons. He thought the police had followed him and had seen him stop there.”, She told Fox that Broughton had been provoked into murdering Erroll because of his affair with Diana. Nearly a year later, after a jury in Nairobi had acquitted Broughton, he committed suicide at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. In the 1980s, when James Fox was researching his book, White Mischief, he reinterviewed Carberry and she stated that Broughton had confessed to her the day after the murder that he had killed Erroll. Marks made by white pipeclay, used in the manufacture of such shoes, were found on the back seat of the crashed Buick car in which Erroll’s body was found. Delves Broughton, who was known as Jock, had been kind to the friendless Juanita – he told her now “not to be frightened when the police came” – and this kindness guaranteed the girl’s loyalty to him, and her silence. After the trial Delves Broughton, who had been widely ostracised because of it and who dreaded loneliness, killed himself in an English hotel. He had been shot through the head by someone in the rear of the car. Her father, John Carberry (who may not have been her real father), was a man whose only fatherl… He built what he called the “children’s wing”, where she slept alone. 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His lovely widow married twice more, eventually becoming Lady Delamere and, in her turn, an enthusiastic racehorse owner. Cyril Connolly, who began the investigation that became White Mischief, wrote of meeting her in 1971: “JC late. It was while still in her teens that Carberry was sucked into the Erroll affair. This name will appear beside any comments you post. He [Broughton] did it. I can tell you that now. Her memoir of her early years, Child of Happy Valley, was published in 1999. He came of age in 1913 and, to the fury of his formidable mother, Mary, with whom he was feuding, announced that he would be selling Castle Freke, in west Cork. For the last 20 years of her life she lived in a flat in Chelsea overlooking the Thames from which she proudly flew the Red Ensign. He lost interest in his second wife, although not in her money. In Kenya he had Juanita beaten until she bled. Update information for Juanita Carberry » Born: May 7, 1925 in Nyeri, Kenya. Carberry published her own account of the affair in Child of Happy Valley (1991) and wrote openly of the debauched lifestyle into which she had been born. When she asked why, Broughton explained that they believed he had been responsible for murdering Erroll. In 1951 she joined the Merchant Navy and for the next 17 years acted as a steward on cargo ships such as the Langley Scot and Langley Clyde and some Norwegian vessels. In old age Carberry was a handsome woman, with what friends described as “a filthy vocabulary” from her years at sea. And the fact is that he was in love with Diana.”. “Well, actually I did,” he added. The death of Juanita Carberry last weekend, at 88, probably closes the file on one of the most notorious murders – and one of the most notorious lifestyles – of the 20th century. She was the perfect witness to the end. Carberry retained her independent mind and lifestyle to the end. He was picked up further along the road at a pre-arranged spot by Broughton’s neighbour, a doctor. On Remembrance Sunday she invariably marched in the Cenotaph parade wearing her FANY slouch hat. Here’s a winning solution for our challenging times, Employers can ease employee concerns by prioritising their wellbeing, The rich, full and cherished lives of the people behind the numbers, I can hear the old dear’s hysterical voice going, ‘Better men than you have eaten my one-pot stews!’, ‘My sister preys on people’s weaknesses, and causes nothing but trouble’, My four-year-old is fearful of sitting on the toilet. The latter starred Charles Dance and Greta Scacchi. The death of Juanita Carberry last weekend, at 88, probably closes the file on one of the most notorious murders – and one of the most notorious lifestyles – of the 20th century. On Remembrance Sunday she marched in the Cenotaph parade. He entered her for terrifying swimming races and diving competitions, and wagered on them. The murder trial gave Juanita a new standing. Her childhood was harsh; her sadistic father, who had dropped his title out of a violent hatred of Britain and had embraced pro-Nazi views, disliked children, especially girls. Knowing that the teenager liked horses, Broughton invited Juanita to look at his stables. I think I was the original hitchhiker.” Finally settling in Mombasa, during the 1960s she drove clients on photographic safaris in Uganda, Tanzania, the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. In the 1970s Carberry settled in Mombasa, working for the Missions to Seamen as an inspector of livestock for the World Society for the Protection of Animals. “The realisation that her testimony risked sending the man accused of murdering [Hay] to the gallows gave ‘the brat’ a new status,” she wrote. Carberry was left harbouring her recollections of an unhappy and disrupted childhood. Eventually they branded her an “unreliable witness” and she was not called. The police had found traces of gym shoe cleaner at the scene of the crime and Carberry claimed Broughton confessed to the murder there and then. Please subscribe to sign in to comment. He told me not to be frightened when the police came, and he told me about the gun, which he said he had thrown into the Thika falls. The accused, Delves Broughton, was later described by fellow members at his club in London as “dishonest, charmless, morose”. A mark from similar shoes had been found in the car in which Hay’s corpse had been discovered. 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According to Fox’s account, Juanita’s South African stepmother, June Weir Mosley, a “terrifyingly unnatural blonde with a deep bass voice”, as someone once described her, and “a drinker and fornicator in a championship class”, often passed her stepdaughter off as her sister, and liked to boast that Juanita could outdrink any man in Kenya — even though she drank only milk.

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