Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (July 16 1931 - February 14 1996) was a writer and artist's muse, and the eldest child of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness.
A well-known figure in the literary world through her journalism and her novels, Caroline Blackwood was equally well-known for her high-profile marriages, first to the artist Lucian Freud, then to the composer Israel Citkowitz and finally to the poet Robert Lowell, who described her as "a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers". Her novels are known for their wit and intelligence, and one in particular is scathingly autobiographical in describing her unhappy childhood.
She was born at 4 Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge, her parents' London house, and was, she admitted, "scantily educated" at Rockport School in County Down, at Brilliantmont in Lausanne, and at Downham in Essex. After a finishing school in Oxford she was presented as a debutante in 1949 at a ball held at Londonderry House. Plump, ungainly and lacking in confidence as a teenager, she soon blossomed into a captivating blonde beauty with startlingly large blue eyes.
Caroline Dale is a British cello player who has performed music for a number of movies, most notably Truly, Madly, Deeply, Hilary and Jackie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She is currently Prinicpal Cellist of the English Chamber Orchestra.
Caroline has appeared as concert soloist with a number of orchestras including London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic.
She has also performed with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page during their 1994 UnLEDed performance on the album No Quarter. Also, she appears playing the cello in the 1994 video for 'Whatever' by Oasis.
In 2002, Caroline released Such Sweet Thunder, an album of classical music with renditions of Handel's Sarabande from the D-minor harpsichord suite, and the Largo from Vivaldi's E minor Cello Sonata.
She has also performed with David Gilmour during his 2002 solo tour dates, as well as on his most recent album, On an Island. Additionally, she appears on the "David Gilmour In Concert" DVD which was recorded at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown concert and the Royal Festival Hall concert, both in 2002.
Performed with David Gray during the "Live in Slow Motion tour" adding classic strings to David Grays music.
She plays the solo cello part in the haunting Elegy for Dunkirk, written by Dario Mariannelli for the film Atonement.
Radio Caroline is a European radio station that started transmissions on Easter Sunday 1964 from a ship anchored in international waters off the coast of Felixstowe, Suffolk England.
It was unlicensed by any government for most of its life and it was labelled a pirate radio station.
Although one of a number of unlicensed radio stations based on ships anchored off Britain, Radio Caroline was the first such station to broadcast all day using the English language. This, together with the station's tenacity in surviving for some 40 years, has established Radio Caroline as a household name for offshore radio.
A legal, onshore version of Radio Caroline continues to broadcast via several methods, predominantly via satellite and over the internet.
