“I opened the door and she said: ‘Daddy, am I for or against Cambodia?’”Ī slightly ungallant thing for a father to share, perhaps? In the same interview, given in 1986, two years before Anna had ascended to the editorship of British Vogue, Charles was careful to add that he was “almost sure” his favourite child was now aware that there were two political parties in the US. Her father, Charles Wintour, then editor of the Evening Standard, recalled how she spent two hours choosing her outfit before leaving the family home in Kensington, only to patter up the steps again.
When Anna Wintour was 18, she arranged to meet a date at a big anti-Vietnam War protest in London.
