Editing Kit Lambert (section)

=== Early life ===
Kit Lambert was born on 11 May 1935,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DykffzkFALoC&dq=Kit+Lambert+BORN+MAY+11+1935&pg=PA351 |first=Nick |last=Talevski |title=Rock Obituaries – Knocking On Heaven's Door |year=2010 |publisher=Music Sales |isbn=978-0-85712-117-2 |page=351}}</ref> the son of composer [[Constant Lambert]] and part-time actress Florence Kaye. He was the grandson of [[George Washington Lambert]], a sculptor and painter who was an official [[war artist]] for the Australian government at [[Gallipoli campaign|Gallipoli]] during the [[World War I|First World War]]. His godfather was his father's friend and fellow composer, [[William Walton]].<ref name="Napier-Bell">{{cite news|url=http://www.simonnapierbell.com/kit_lambert.html|title=Kit Lambert|last1=Napier-Bell|first1=Simon|year=1997|newspaper=Sunday Times magazine|access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> His godmother was [[Margot Fonteyn]], the prima ballerina who danced for Constant's company, [[The Royal Ballet]], and with whom Constant had an affair causing him to leave Lambert's mother.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/31/biography.stage |title=Equally Home on the Range – A Review of Margot Fonteyn |last1=Perry|first1=Jann|year=2004|newspaper=The Observer|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref> Home life was difficult for Lambert who was sent to live with his grandmother at a young age. When he was 16, his father died at the age of 45.