Other members of the set included Kiki Preston (1898–1946 née Alice Gwynne), John Evans-Freke, tenth Baron Carbery (1892–1970), his third wife, June, née Mosley ( d. ![]() The de Janzés were divorced in 1927 after she shot de Trafford, who was then her lover, and turned her gun on herself her marriage to de Trafford in 1932 endured only a few months. Also prominent were her first husband, Count Frédéric de Janzé (1896–1933), whose roman à clef Vertical Land (1928) depicts Happy Valley's habitués, and her second, Raymond de Trafford (1900–1971). Alice de Janzé ranked after the Errolls as the third leader of the set. It petered out in 1941 after Erroll's murder, and the suicides of his discarded mistress Alice de Janzé (1899–1941) and his cuckold, Sir Jock Broughton, eleventh baronet, both of whom have been suspected as Erroll's killer. ![]() The set's heyday ran from 1924, when two of its most notorious members, Josslyn Hay, twenty-second earl of Erroll, and his first wife, Lady (Myra) Idina Sackville (1893–1955), daughter of the eighth Earl De La Warr, settled in the Wanjohi valley. ![]() ![]() The Happy Valley escapists were no more representative of colonial Kenya than the ‘bright young people’ were of inter-war England. The sexual diversions of the Wanjohi valley led to it being known as Happy Valley and prompted the joke question, 'Are you married, or do you live in Kenya?' ( Carberry, 156). 1924–1941), was the sobriquet of fast-living English upper-class settlers in Kenya's Wanjohi valley who were notorious for adultery, alcoholism, and violence.
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