Ethel Beatty was a poor mother, Peter had birth complications that affected his eyesight and she was the foremost hostess in England whose capital is London.
According to Robert K. Massie, Ethel Beatty was a poor mother, abandoning her son Ronald from her first marriage; she also left the children of her second marriage with her husband while she went on a gambling trip to Monte Carlo in 1912. Peter had birth complications that affected his eyesight and muscle control for the rest of his life, thought to originate from a venereal disease carried by Ethel. In her obituary, it was noted that "her beauty and personality made her one of England's foremost hostesses. London 
