Personal Life
Ashley was born Edith Louisa Sylvia Hawkes in Paddington, London, England, a daughter of Arthur Hawkes and Edith Florence Hyde. (Although she preferred giving her year of birth as 1906, the England and Wales Civil Registration Index, Vol. 1a, Page 26, shows it was recorded during the June quarter of 1904, District of Paddington.) Her sister, Lillian Vera Hawkes (6 March 1910 – 1 January 1997), married British film producer Basil Bleck.
Hawkes was married five times:
- Major Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley (married 3 February 1927 – 28 November 1934)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., American actor (married 7 March 1936 – 12 December 1939)
- Edward Stanley, 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley (married 18 January 1944 – 1948)
- Clark Gable, American actor (married 20 December 1949 – 21 April 1952)
- Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, hotel executive and race-car driver (married 1954)
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