Sheila : the Australian beauty who bewitched British society
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Sheila : the Australian beauty who bewitched British society
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- Sheila : the Australian beauty who bewitched British society
- Title remainder
- the Australian beauty who bewitched British society
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Wainwright
- Subject
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- trueAustralians in England
- Socialites -- Australia -- Biography
- trueChisholm, Margaret Sheila MacKellar, 1895-1969
- trueRich women
- trueLife stories -- People in history
- trueEngland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueHistory Writing -- Women's history
- trueWidows
- trueWomen philanthropists
- Nobility -- England -- Biography
- trueGreat Britain -- History -- 20th century
- trueSocialites -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueWomen celebrities
- Upper class families -- England -- Biography
- trueAustralian literature
- trueWomen -- Australia -- Biography -- 20th century
- trueMarriage
- trueBiographies
- Australians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- trueAristocracy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess. Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, a first lieutenant and son of the 5th Earl of Rosslyn, when she went to Egypt during the Great War to nurse her brother. Arriving in London as a young married woman, the world was at her feet - and she enjoyed it immensely. Edward, Prince of Wales, called her 'a divine woman' and his brother, Bertie, the future George VI of England (Queen Elizabeth's father), was especially close to her. She subsequently became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. Sheila had torrid love affairs with Rudolph Valentino and Prince Obolensky of Russia and among her friends were Evelyn Waugh, Lord Beaverbrook and Wallis Simpson. An extraordinary woman unknown to most Australians, Sheila is a spellbinding story of a unique time and a place and an utterly fascinating life
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- Dewey number
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- general
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