THE ABERDEEN EVENING PRESS

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

28 April 1961

(page 7)

‘His Name is a Secret’

Says Resistance Heroine.

Wartime resistance heroine Mrs. Mary Grant again declined to-day to name the man she is to marry.

The 47-year-old former London society beauty is selling up her 32-roomed mansion, Boleskine House, Foyers, and says she has started proceedings for divorce from her husband, Captain Anthony Loraine, a former captain of the Queen’s Flight.

Local people have linked her name with an Inverness-shire man, but he said to-day, “It is not me.”

From her country home, overlooking Loch Ness, Mrs. Grant repeated: “I do not want to reveal the name of my husband-to-be at the moment. But we are building a house near Beauly. It should be ready by the time my divorce comes through.”

Twice-married Mrs. Grant—“I resorted to my maiden name when my husband and I parted”—says she cannot continue to run Boleskine on her own.

Mrs. Grant’s husband, Capt. Loraine, was a friend of the famous airwoman, the late Amy Mollison.

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The white-stone mansion is said to have been the scene of black magic orgies when owned by “The Prince of Black Magic,” Alister [sic] Crowley.

TOO COSTLY.

“I have a house-keeper looking after me, and she is exceptionally good, but a place of this size needs a man to run it. Besides, it is costing me about £5000 a year to keep going.”

Mrs. Grant says it will break her heart to leave Boleskine but she still has the memory of a fateful night last November when her second cousin, Major Edward Grant, shot himself in one of the bedrooms.

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