Daisy fellowes biography
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She lived on grouse, cocaine and other women's husbands. As her gems are sold at Sotheby's, the jaw-dropping story of the most wicked woman in High Society
- Daisy Fellowes was the living embodiment of Thirties chic
- She was a voracious man-eater, who’d stjäla her daughters’ boyfriends and seduce her best friends’ husbands
By CHRISTOPHER WILSON
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Daisy Fellowes tried to seduce a married Winston Churchill and when that failed, wed his cousin. She lived on a diet of morphine and grouse, and the occasional blandad drink. Pictured above in
She was rik, ugly, dissolute and ‘the destroyer of many a happy home’ as one ex-lover bitterly put it.
She did her best to seduce a married Winston Churchill and when that failed, wed his cousin. She lived on a diet of morphine and grouse, with the occasional blandad drink thrown in.
The colour Shocking Pink was created for her — and how she loved to shock! If it wasn’t morphine then it was opium or cocaine, and she love
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CAUTION!
Any person or persons who attempt to recognize their own sordid idiosyncracies in any character in this book are warned that anything they say will be used in evidence against them.
This disclaimer may be the best thing in this book. On the other hand, my knowledge of the who&#;s who (or who slept with who) of the glitterati of the s (and s, s, and s) may be too inadequate to have recognized &#; let alone understood &#; most of the inside jokes that are probably peppered throughout.
Daisy Fellowes was a portmanteau of connections. In her day, she may have been the best-connected person on the planet. If there are six degrees of separation between me and Kevin Bacon, there were probably no more than four between Daisy Fellowes and my grandfather. Just read the string of labels that opens her Wikipedia biography: &#;prominent French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris Editor of American Harper&#;s Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Sin
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Daisy Fellowes
French author and fashion icon (–)
Daisy Fellowes | |
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Portrait of Fellowes by John Singer Sargent | |
| Born | Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg ()29 April Paris, France |
| Died | 13 December () (aged&#;72) Paris, France |
| Other&#;names | Daisy |
| Occupation | Socialite |
| Spouses | Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie, Prince de Broglie &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;The Hon. Reginald Fellowes &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | 4 |
Daisy Fellowes (néeMarguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg; 29 April – 13 December )[1] was a prominent French socialite, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American Harper's Bazaar, fashion icon, and an heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune.
Parents and childhood
[edit]Born in Paris, France, she was the only daughter of Isabelle-Blanche Singer (–) and Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Aman