| Record Number |
17330 |
| ISBN |
9781743311318 |
| Location |
B SHE |
| Author |
Wainwright, Robert, 1961- |
| Title |
Sheila : the Australian beauty who bewitched British society / Robert Wainwright. [BOOK] |
| Portion of title |
Australian beauty who bewitched British society. |
| Published |
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2015. |
| Sydney Allen & Unwin, 2015. |
| Collation |
xiii, 410 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| still image |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
Record machine-generated from publisher information. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (page 397-400) and index. |
| Contents Note |
1.To Prove That A Girl Could Do It -- 2.I Thought This Must Be Love -- 3."Hello, Call Me Harry" -- 4.A Son Amid The Air Raids -- 5."Call Them Sir And Treat Them Like Dirt" -- 6.The 4 Do's -- 7.A Dukedom For A Sheila -- 8.Mollee And The Prince -- 9.No Man Is Worth Leaving One's Children -- 10.Ever Yours Sincerely, Albert -- 11.An Extravagant Peer -- 12.A Strange Sex Antagonism -- 13.Palm Beach Nights -- 14."Wedding Bells Are All Bunk" -- 15.Lindbergh And The Derby Ball -- 16.An Incomparable Sheila -- 17.A Temporary Unsound Mind -- 18.The "It" Girl -- 19.Vivid, Gay, Utterly Charming -- 20.When The Cat's Away -- 21.You'd Better Ask Mrs Simpson -- 22.Poor Little Rich Girl -- 23.Time Changes Many Things -- 24.A Journey Home -- 25.The Shadow Of War -- 26."I'M Not Crying; There's Rain In My Eyes" -- 27.So Completely In The Hands Of Fate -- 28.A Feeling Of Uncertainty -- 29.A Prince Of Russia -- 30.Smell The Wattle And The Gum. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Personal Name |
Chisholm, Margaret Sheila MacKellar, 1895-1969 |
| Chisholm, Margaret Sheila MacKellar |
| Subject |
Socialites -- Australia -- Biography |
| Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Australians -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Socialites -- Australia -- Biography |
| Australians -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| Nobility -- England -- Biography |
| Upper class families -- England -- Biography |
| Women -- Australia -- Biography -- 20th century |
| Geographic Name |
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century |
