Description Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909.
Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains.
For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service.
She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family.
Here she heard tales of the Earl's propensity for setting fire to himself,.
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