The house followed the title, and was bequeathed instead by her father to his brother Charles, who became the 4th Baron. The Sackville-West family followed the English aristocracy's inheritance customs, preventing Vita from inheriting Knole upon the death of her father this was a source of life-long bitterness for her. Knole had been given to Thomas Sackville by Elizabeth I, in the sixteenth century. Vita's mother, the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville and the Spanish dancer Pepita (Josefa de Oliva, née Durán y Ortega), had been raised in a Parisian convent.Īlthough the marriage of Sackville-West's parents was initially happy, the couple drifted apart shortly after her birth, and Lionel took an opera singer who came to live with them at Knole as his mistress. She was the only child of cousins Victoria Sackville-West and Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. Victoria Mary Sackville-West - called Vita, to distinguish her from her mother - was born on 9 March 1892 at Knole, the Kent home of Sackville-West's aristocratic ancestors. Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville.
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