Helen Bright Woods

Her mother, Helen (Bright) Woods , was the illegitimate grand-daughter of Dr Richard Bright , physician to Queen Victoria and discoverer of Bright's disease. She was a seventeen-year old beauty with no fortune when she...

During the early or mid 1930s Helen's mother married a second time, for motives of convenience. Her second husband, Hugh Tevis , was a wealthy South African financier, and a homosexual. Helen Bright Woods was...

Between 1946 and 1949, AK visited her mother and Hugh Tevis in South Africa on three different occasions.

On her eighteenth birthday Helen Woods (later AK ) was given a £600 annual allowance by her mother , her only surviving parent.