New York Social Diary on Tessa Dahl: "Besides her marriages she had a very long affair that began when she was a teen-ager with David Hemmings who died this past year, although they never married."
Daily Mail: "Last week Tessa Dahl, 46, went to the memorial service for actor David Hemmings, the great passion of her tempestuous life. They had a fractured affair over many years but, in the end, they were too alike.
They both had dazzling charm, star quality, a low boredom threshold, a self-destructive streak and a continuing tendency to let down those who loved them most.
She met him when she was a luscious 16 and they began an affair when she was 18. One evening when they'd just made love he told her that he was leaving her because he was going to marry his secretary Pru. The next morning she discovered that he'd actually married Pru the previous day but spent his wedding night with Tessa. 'My heart, she says, 'was gouged.'"