The
Times reports that it was recently discovered that Laveryâs 1938 oil painting, âThe Viscountess Castlerosse, Palm Springsâ, features the socialiteâs much-admired legs twice in one scene. Lady Castlerosse is pictured seated with her legs dangling off a diving board, while to the left of the painting a second figure is visible with their legs crossed on a bench, their face just beyond the range of the picture. It had previously been thought that the second figure was either a Hollywood director, or the Viscountessâs brother, Edward Delevingne (known as Dudley to his friends and family) â the grandfather of Chloe, Poppy and Cara.
Her legs were, according to a friend, “the prettiest that ever stepped into a punt or danced a foxtrot”, and her beauty is said to have enraptured Sir Winston Churchill.Now it has been discovered that