Savitri’s best friend Muriel Gantry was born Agnes Muriel Cox on 24 November 1913 and died on 7 November 2000, just short of her 87th birthday. She met Savitri in London in 1946, and they remained friends until Savitri’s death on 22 October 1982 in the sitting room of Muriel’s home, Moira Cottage, in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England.