In 1976 Soho icon Henrietta Moraes became Marianne Faithfull’s minder during the singer’s comeback tour of Ireland. Henrietta had been working for the Hay-on-Wye bookshop impresario Richard Booth, helping him, in the bicentenary year of US independence, to open an American bookshop in the town’s old workhouse. It was a time when Marianne Faithfull was often a guest of Booth at his home in Hay Castle. In April 1976, a party was held for the American ambassador to celebrate th

Of the many pictures that exist of Henrietta, the photograph above captures best how I remember her. It was used to illustrate a piece by...

She was the sort of person who would have wanted to make the most of all twelve days of Christmas. So it seems fitting that she died on...