Upstairs, Downstairs
Loves Upstairs 2

The frail Hazel came to 165 as a secretary in 1912 and soon after accepted James' offer of marriage over dinner at the Café Royal. The marriage was not a happy affair and she later miscarried their child. The relationship seemed to be on the mend when she died of influenza at the end of the War.

James and Georgina survey war graves in France in 1916. Although she called him Jumbo and he playfully spanked her with newspapers, James' true feelings towards his step-cousin were never far below the surface.

During her rocky marriage to James, Hazel had an affair with a glum young Flying Corps officer, Jack Dyson. He went back to war...and his death.

Virginia Hamilton was Richard Bellamy's second wife. They met during the War when she asked him to intervene to save her son from a court martial. Her two children from her first marriage, Alice and William, later moved into Eaton Place. In 1921, anxiety gripped Richard when James took Virginia for an aeroplane ride and both were reported missing. They later returned safely having been lost in fog.

Another one of James' loves was Diana Newbury, wife of a wimpish army pal. After the War, and bored in her marriage, she joined James on a holiday in a remote country lodge, planning to run away with him. But by then James had no enthusiasm and no desire left and his affections lay more in the direction of Richard's ward, Georgina Worsley.

In 1929, after many beaus, Georgina eventually decided to marry the aristocratic Robert, Marquis of Stockbridge. His mother thought he was marrying beneath himself and sent him off for a year to cool down. However, during this sabbatical his affections stayed firm, and the couple wed in 1930.