Renée Octavie Ghislaine Marie-Noële Kelly, Lady Kelly (; 25 December 1901 – 22 February 1995) was a Belgian-born English hostess and traveler. She was posted abroad to Sweden, Egypt, Argentina, Switzerland, Turkey and the Soviet Union as the wife David Kelly, the Head of Chancery at the British Embassy. Kelly travelled widely throughout her life and published the books Turkish Delights, Mirror to Russia, Picture Book of Russia and This Delicious Land Portugal. She wrote about her travels in Country Life magazine and the London Evening Standard newspaper. Biography On 25 December 1901, Kelly was born in Belgium into an aristocratic family. She was the eldest of three daughters of Charles de Jourda de Vaux, comte de Vaux, whose ancestors emigrated from France during the French Revolution. Baron George Snoy, the author of a series of travel guides in the 1860s and traveller, was Kelly's maternal grandfather. Her ancestors on her father's side were Maréchal Charles Noël de Jourda, comte de Vaux, who conquered Corsica for Louis XV and planned an invasion of England. Kelly was raised a devout Roman Catholic, and was firstly educated at home, by her father who gave his daughters a higher standard of education for the era, teaching them classics, English literature and French. Kelly was then educated at convents in Brussels and in Haywards Heath in Sussex. She also stayed as a guest of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon in Shropshire during the First World War. Kelly met David Kelly, the Head of Chancery at the British Embassy, at a dinner party held at the house of her grandparents close to Waterloo in 1928. The two were engaged in 1929 and were married that June. They had two children, one of whom is Laurence Kelly, a writer; she was stepmother to her husband's two children from his first marriage. Kelly was initiated into the complexities of diplomatic life by Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville. In the 1930s, her husband's postings overseas meant she was first based in Stockholm, Sweden and then in Cairo, Egypt following her husband being recalled to London. Kelly was later based in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Bern, Switzerland during the Second World War. In Buenos Aires, she was part of the British community which raised £3 million in goods and provisions towards the war effort. Kelly became Lady Kelly when her husband was made KCMG in 1942, and was later made