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| name = Diana Pullein-Thompson
| image = Diana_Pullein-Thompson_died_2015.jpg
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| birth_place = [[Wimbledon, London]], England
▲| birth_date = 1 October 1925
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|09|21|1925|10|01|df=y}}
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| other_names = Diana Farr
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* [[Christine Pullein-Thompson]] (twin sister) * [[Josephine Pullein-Thompson]] (sister) }}
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'''Diana
==Life==
Pullein-Thompson was born into a notable family. Her father,
The family home was a villa in the suburb of [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]]. Diana's father was badly wounded in the war and in frequent pain (and a bad mood). He had earned the [[Military Cross]]. He had just survived when many of his fellows had been killed.<ref name=diana/> He had been a teacher but he then sold fridges and had a game company,<ref name=gg/> but it was her mother who made more money writing pony books on the kitchen table.
The family moved to [[Rotherfield Peppard]] in Oxfordshire where their large house, The Grove, had its own stables. The girls learned to ride and competed in events.<ref name=gg/> In time they would describe their country childhood in their joint autobiography ''Fair Girls and Grey Horses'' (
When Diana was fourteen and her big sister fifteen they abandoned education and started a riding school at their home.<ref name=rr>{{Cite web|title=PULLEIN-THOMPSON, JOSEPHINE (WRITER) Reference: MS 5120|url=https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/josephine-pullein-thompson-collection/|url-status=live|access-date=23 June 2020|website=Reading University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130023303/https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/josephine-pullein-thompson-collection/ |archive-date=2020-11-30 }}</ref> The riding school brought in extra money as the three sisters taught others to ride.<ref name=diana>{{Cite news|last=Fryer|first=Jonathan|date=2015-11-05|title=Diana Pullein-Thompson obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/05/diana-pullein-thompson|access-date=2020-06-23|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
In 1946 she had her first book, ''I Wanted a Pony'',<ref name=diana/> published and she had a share in another book ''It Began With Picotee'' which the three sisters had created together in 1941, as it was published the same year.<ref name=gg>{{Cite news|last=Fryer|first=Jonathan|date=2014-06-22|title=Josephine Pullein-Thompson obituary|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/22/josephine-pullein-thompson|access-date=2020-06-23|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
The twins, Diana and [[Christine Pullein-Thompson|Christine]] intended to be professional horse riders in America. Christine went to [[Virginia]], but Diana was denied entry to the USA in 1952 as the medical revealed that she had [[tuberculosis]]. She was sent to recover in Switzerland courtesy of the country's new [[National Health Service]].<ref name=diana/> When she was better she set out to ride her horse ''Favorita'', all the way from [[John o' Groats|John O’Groats]] to [[Land's End|Land’s End]]. She completed this journey in six weeks.<ref name=diana/>
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==Private life==
She married [[Dennis Farr]] [[CBE]] in 1959. They had a son and a daughter
==Works==
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