He was equally resistant to his mother’s efforts to influence Rachel, who adopted a fashionable Louise Brooks bob and fringe. “Incandescent” when he saw the new style, Lauterpacht insisted that she return to the bun, prompting a major row between the couple and a threat from Rachel to leave him. “I can and must have my private harmless life without you bullying me.” In the end, however, Rachel conceded: the bun was still in place when I met her, more than fifty years later. Individual rights for some, but not for the mother or the wife.
