![]() ![]() She later married Peter Soros, a nephew of American currency speculator and philanthropist George Soros, with whom she has two children. Powell-Jones died of a heart attack in 1998, aged 44. When she was 21, Fraser married Robert Powell-Jones, with whom she had a daughter. She then read Classics at Wadham College, Oxford. Using her maiden name Flora Fraser, she has written biographies of Emma Hamilton, Caroline of Brunswick, the daughters of George III, and Pauline Bonaparte.įraser attended Holland Park School for one year before joining her elder sister Rebecca at St Paul's Girls' School. She was named for the Scottish Jacobite Flora MacDonald. ![]() Her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Longford, also an eminent biographer, and Lord Longford, a well-known politician, social reformer, and author. Her stepfather was the playwright Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, her mother's second husband until his death in 2008. ![]() Her mother is of English descent while her father was Scottish. She is a daughter of historian and historical biographer Lady Antonia Fraser and Sir Hugh Fraser, a British Conservative politician. In this sumptuous group portrait of the six daughters of Mad King George III, acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser takes us into the heart of the British royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions. Flora Elizabeth Fraser Soros (born 30 October 1958) is an English writer of historical biographies. ![]()
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