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Ella van Heemstra was a Dutch aristocrat and the third of five daughters of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Suriname between 1921 and 1928. Ella's mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who was a granddaughter of jurist Count Dirk van Hogendorp. [1]
Apr 3, 2019 · Audrey Hepburn's mother, Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra, met Hitler in 1935 and had a Nazi officer as a boyfriend. She later joined the Dutch Resistance and hid a British paratrooper during World War II.
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Audrey Kathleen Ruston (later, Hepburn-Ruston [6]) was born on 4 May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. [7] She was known to her family as Adriaantje. [8] Hepburn's grandfather, Aarnoud van Heemstra, was the governor of the colony of Dutch Guiana.
Baroness Ella Van Heemstra. Baroness Ella Van Heemstra was born on 12 June 1900 in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands. She was an actress. She was married to Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and Hendrik Quarles van Ufford. She died on 26 August 1984 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
- Actress
- June 12, 1900
- Baroness Ella Van Heemstra
- August 26, 1984
Jun 12, 2019 · Her Dutch mother, the Baroness Ella van Heemstra, met Hitler in the 1930s and wrote admiringly about him in British fascist publications — but changed her mind during the brutal Nazi occupation ...
May 3, 2019 · Audrey Hepburn as a teenager with her mother, Dutch baroness Ella Van Heemstra, 1946. Hulton Archive/Getty Images By this time she, like most Dutch young people, was already suffering symptoms of ...
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Jun 4, 2022 · Hepburn's mother, Ella, Baroness van Heemstra, was a member of an ancient Dutch noble family from Friesland, in the northern Netherlands (via Express). Ella's father Aarnoud van Heemstra was an attorney and judge. Her mother was also from a noble family, according to The New York Times. Aarnoud van Heemstra later became mayor of Arnhem ...
