Author’s distinguished heritage
ANNA PASTERNAK made her name with the 1994 book Princess In Love – about Princess Diana’s affair with cavalry officer James Hewitt.
The writer comes from an illustrious family. Her great-grandfather Leonid Pasternak was an impressionist painter, her great-uncle Boris, a Nobel prizewinning novelist, her grandmother Josephine, a philosopher, while her father Charles is an Oxford scientist.
A ‘self-confessed elitist snob’, the author has been publicising her new book The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson which draws parallels with the Duchess of Sussex.
Pasternak, 53, was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, and after her divorce from Old Etonian William Coles, published a tit-for-tat diary of their divorce.
With her second husband, therapist Andrew Wallas, 63, she wrote a relationship book Call Off The Search, in which she told of her desperate yearning for a man to share her life.
The couple live in Oxfordshire with her 16-year-old daughter Daisy.