![]() ![]() ![]() In 1918 the ruin of Oscar Wilde was still fresh in people’s memories and Harold’s liaisons risked his career as a diplomat, his social position and their marriage. Since marrying Harold in 1913, her earlier attraction to women had waned and she had happily focused on her writing, her family, house and garden. ![]() They had two sons and up to that point she had regarded Harold as a ‘sunny harbour’ and her marriage as ‘open, frank, certain’. He called them boffes de gait é, ‘a jolly vice’ that would not interfere with their marriage or their love for one another. He was also forced to confess to Vita that there had been other such indiscretions. He had been put under doctor’s orders to abstain from sex for six months due to a venereal infection, following a fleeting encounter with a man. When Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson had been married for four and a half years her husband was obliged to have a difficult conversation. ![]()
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