a Dame of Honour. In 1946, she moved to Ankara, Turkey and, upon the suggestion of Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Turkey's first woman barrister, gave a series of widely publicised public lectures that were attended by several wives of ministers. Kelly and her husband attracted positive press coverage that enhanced the confidence of the Anglo-Turkish alliance, and they made contact with several provincial governors. In 1949, she moved to Moscow in the Soviet Union for three years in an era where the country had severe restrictions imposed on diplomats; she and her husband were given permission for wider travel experiences than their colleagues. Two years later, Kelly authored the travel book Turkish Delights, which included descriptions of several hitherto neglected Byzantine and Turkish monuments. She used her skills as a hostess at a number of sorties in Moscow, and went on exhibitions to the ancient European Russia provincial cities (but not to the excluded Central Asiatic Russia and Southern Russia) such as Kyiv that was closed to diplomats for half a decade. Her experiences formed the basis of the 1952 book Mirror to Russia in a time when the Soviet Union was a mystery outside of the country, as well as a Picture Book of Russia with photographs she took herself. Following the Kellys leaving Moscow in 1951 when her husband retired from the Foreign Office, she authored a series of articles on her travels for Country Life magazine and the London Evening Standard newspaper. Kelly wrote the books This Delicious Land Portugal in 1956 and her autobiography, Dawn to Dusk, four years later. She began travelling widely again when her husband was appointed to the British Council as its chair in 1955. Kelly maintained an 18th-century Georgian House in Tara Hill, County Wexford, Ireland, and maintained a cottage there upon the death of her husband in 1959. She mostly resided in a flat spanning the highest two floors of a house in Carlyle Square in Chelsea, London, but ceased employing diplomatic staff and held parties for writers, diplomats, visiting foreigners and her young cousins. She died on 22 February 1995 in London. Following a memorial mass thanksgiving service for Kelly that was held at the Church of the Holy Redeemer in Cheyne Row, Chelsea on 6 April, she was buried in County Wexford. A series of four photographs with Kelly in them are held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. References