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Daisy Fellowes (''née'' Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glücksberg; 29 April 1890 – 13 December 1962) was a prominent French
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, acclaimed beauty, minor novelist and poet, Paris editor of American ''
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'',
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, and an heiress to the
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fortune.


Parents and childhood

Born in
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, France, she was the only daughter of Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869–1896) and Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Amanien Decazes de Glücksberg (1864–1912), 3rd
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and Duke of Glücksberg. Her maternal grandfather was
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, the American
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pioneer. After her mother's suicide, she and her siblings were largely raised by their maternal aunt,
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(Princess Edmond de Polignac), a noted patron of the arts, particularly music.


First marriage

Her first husband, whom she married on 10 May 1910 in Paris, was Jean Amédée Marie Anatole de Broglie,
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(born in Paris on 27 January 1886). He reportedly died of influenza on 20 February 1918 while serving with the
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in
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, though there was gossip that he actually committed suicide as a result of his homosexuality having been exposed. Their country estate was Compton Beauchamp House in
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, where they raised three daughters: * Princess Emmeline Isabelle Edmée Séverine de Broglie (
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, 16 February 1911 – Onez, Switzerland, 10 September 1986). Married to Marie Alexandre William Alvar de Biaudos, Comte de Castéja (Paris, 6 April 1907 – Paris, 6 July 1983) in Neuilly, 8 November 1932. Accused of collaboration during
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, Emmeline de Castéja spent five months in the prison at Fresnes, France. * Princess Isabelle Marguerite Jeanne Pauline de Broglie ( Lamorlaye, 27 July 1912 –
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, 18 July 1960). Married to Olivier Charles Humbert Marie, Marquis de La Moussaye (La Poterie, 26 Mars 1908 – Paris, 20 October 1988) in Neuilly, 3 June 1931. Divorced in Paris, 13 April 1945. Isabelle de La Moussaye was a novelist. * Princess Jacqueline Marguerite de Broglie (Paris, 5 January 1918 –
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,
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26 February 1965). Married to Alfred Ignaz Maria Kraus (
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, 28 November 1908–) in Neuilly, France, 6 October 1941. Divorced in
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, 3 February 1958. After her husband—a Siemens electronics senior manager who served as a counter-espionage agent with the
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— was accused of betraying members of the French Resistance during World War II to protect his wife, also a member of the Resistance, Jacqueline Kraus had her head shaved as punishment. Of her Broglie children, the notoriously caustic Fellowes once said, "The eldest, Emmeline, is like my first husband only a great deal more masculine; the second, Isabelle, is like me without guts; ndthe third, Jacqueline, was the result of a horrible man called Lischmann ...."


Second marriage

Her second husband, whom she married on 9 August 1919 in London, was The Hon. Reginald Ailwyn Fellowes (1884–1953), of
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. He was a banker, cousin of
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and the son of
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. They had one child, Rosamond Daisy Fellowes (1921–1998). She married her first husband in 1941 (divorced 1945), Captain James Gladstone, and had one son, James Reginald (born 1943). She married her second husband in 1953 (divorced), Tadeusz Maria Wiszniewski (1917–2005); they had one daughter, Diana Marguerite Mary Wiszniewska (born 1953).


Affairs

Among Fellowes's lovers was
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, the British ambassador to France. She also attempted to seduce
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, but failed, shortly before marrying his cousin Reginald Fellowes.


Literary works

Fellowes wrote several novels and at least one epic poem. Her best-known work is ''Les dimanches de la comtesse de Narbonne'' (1931, published in English as "Sundays"). She also wrote the novel ''Cats in the Isle of Man''.


Status as fashion icon

She was known as one of the most daring
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s of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier
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. She was also a friend of the jeweller Suzanne Belperron, and she was a longtime customer of the jeweller
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Death

Daisy Fellowes died on 13 December 1962 at her ''
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'' in Paris at number 69, rue de Lille.Connaissance des arts, Axelle de Gaigneron, ''Dernier regard sur l'hôtel particulier du faubourg Saint-Germain dans lequel régna l'Honorable Mrs Reginald Fellowes'', N°302 – avril 1977, page 86–93


See also

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Baron de Ramsey Baron de Ramsey, of Ramsey Abbey in the County of Huntingdon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1887 for Edward Fellowes, who had previously represented Huntingdonshire in the House of Commons as a Conservative fo ...
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Carlos de Beistegui Carlos de Beistegui e Yturbe (31 January 1895 – 17 January 1970),''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995'' also known as Charlie de Beistegui, was an eccentric French-born Me ...
*
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*
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