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She counted royalty, prime ministers and celebrities amongst her inner circle, jet-setted between London, Corfu, the French Riviera and New York, and cultivated an exquisite collection of artworks and furniture thanks to her impeccable taste and high society connections, and now, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie’s pieces are to be auctioned by Christie’s.
LOT 311 Horst P. Horst portrait of Audrey Pleydell-Bourverie
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Although not as famous now as her fellow Bright Young Things, who she was photographed alongside in Cecil Beaton s
The Book of Beauty - Audrey James, as she was born, was just as chic, elegant and bohemian. The illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII via her mother, she was raised by American steel magnate William Dodge James, yet is thought to have been the biological daughter of Liberal politician Sir Edward Grey. She grew up in Sussex in an atmosphere of constant parties, with