LONDON — Lady Annabel Goldsmith , the British socialite, inspiration behind the namesake London club and matriarch of a high-flying family that includes Robin Birley , Jemima and Zac Goldsmith , has died aged 91.

Goldsmith was a grande dame of 20 th century Britain, and chronicled her charmed, and often complicated, life in two books published in the early aughts, “Annabel: An Unconventional Life,” and “No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years.”

Born Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, she became Lady Annabel in her teens when her father inherited the title of Marquess of Londonderry in 1949. Aged 19, she married her first husband, the stylish and savvy Mark Birley. He would become London ’s king of clubs, and name his first – and mos

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