Lady Diana Cooper

Indeed, Churchill's pairs followed these conventions.

His first known pair of Albert slippers were a gift from a friend of his, the Lady Diana Cooper, and his were in black velvet with a monogram embroidered in gold.

He came to like the style so much that he had subsequent pairs made, generally in deep blue or maroon velvet, and embroidered with his initials in either gold or white.

Photographs of the time show that not only did he wear his Albert slippers at home, but even ventured out in public on occasion while wearing them.

Yeah, that's it.

You see, that's what the title of the book, Now You Are Wonderful, it comes from a saying from a woman called Lady Diana Cooper.

She was a silent movie

star.

I probably got it from her.

But this is something said by, um, uh, she was an aristocrat, she was a silent movie actress, a Lady Diana Cooper.

And what she said was, "First you are young, then you are middle-aged, then you are old, then you are wonderful." And as you said in the introduction, um, we are at an accumulation of all of the ages we have been, the, the trials, the tribulations, the joys, the successes, and we are at this stage.

And the, the idea of the book came, um, just having coffee with, uh, Ciara Considine, who's m- my editor in Hachette.

Because, uh, it's a quote that I have adored since I read it first 20 years ago.

It's from a woman called Lady Diana Cooper, who was a- an English aristocrat and a silent movie actress, and I just came across it in a book.

And what she said was, "First you are young, then you are middle-aged, then you are old, then you are wonderful." So we just adapted it and said, "Now you are wonderful." So the, because in older age, we are the, the kind of the accumulation of all of the experiences, the challenges, the joys, all of the, the life experiences that we have lived, um, from birth right through to, to older age, and it's a time for celebration.

It's a time for acknowledgement and acceptance and respect.

There's a there's a quote, and I have used it as the title for the book on aging, which is coming out in October.

And it's by a woman called Lady Diana Cooper.

She was one of these socialites.

You know, she hung around with the Guinness girls and all those, you know, first you are young, then you are middle aged, then you are old, then you are wonderful.