Personal Life
He was married: (1) from 1922 to 1932, to Lady Phyllis Edith King (1897–1947), daughter of Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865–1929) (2) from 1932 to 1939, to Paula Gellibrand (1898–1986), once Cecil Beaton's favourite models, formerly the wife of the Marquis de Casa Maury and formerly the wife of Ivan Wilkie Brooks; and (3) from 1943, to Nathalie Maximovna.
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