Having met two of them, and flown with them, I can say they were larger than life characters. My wife and I were with Diana Barnato Walker in the Officer's Mess at R.A.F Middleton St. George ( Durham/Teeside Airport now) when she got the urge to fly at more than the speed of sound in a Lightning.
Check her out on Google it's worth a read.
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