AS EVAN Morgans biographer, I was disappointed to read the recent Argus article on Evan of September 16. The piece was full of errors and repeated the usual fictions about Evan, Viscount Tredegar. It also made cruel and unnecessary aspersions upon the integrity of Evan’s mother, Lady Katharine Carnegie, mocking a defenceless woman with serious health issues.
Certainly no credit is due to the National Trust at Tredegar House for allowing one of its employees to continue to offer local journalists puerile piffle about Evan Morgan and demean the reputation of Lady Tredegar, whose memory still remains dear to her own surviving family.
The sloppy elements of the article need correction. Evan was the 2nd - not the 4th Viscount Tredegar, Evans mother could not have been the talk of the town she never lived in Newport, but had her own houses in London and Surrey. Evan left Christ Church, Oxford, without taking a degree, and the marriage to Princess Olga was the only one that ended in divorce, Lois Sturt died in 1937, whilst still Viscountess Tredegar and married to Evan. Evans Uncle Frederic was the 5th Baron Tredegar.
One of the photographs described as a last one of Evan is also inaccurate. No useful purpose was served by this article, a classic example of recycled material that has been already overtaken and discredited by my seven books on the Morgan family.
William Cross
Sutton Road
Newport
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