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Sylvia, Lady Ashley (born Edith Louisa Hawkes, 1 April 1904 – 29 June 1977) was an English model, actress, and socialite who was best known for her numerous marriages to British and Georgian noblemen and American movie stars.
Sylvia Ashley (1 April 1904 – 29 June 1977) was an English model, actress, and socialite [1] who was best known for her marriages to British aristocrats and American movie stars. Ashley was born Edith Louisa Sylvia Hawkes in Paddington, London, England, a daughter of Arthur Hawkes and Edith Florence Hyde.
Fairbanks soon married Lady Sylvia Ashley, his mistress, and the couple traveled the world together. In 1939 Fairbanks died of a heart attack at age 56.
Now the largely forgotten socialite Sylvia Ashley has stepped back into the limelight as Cecil Beaton’s sketch of her comes to auction in Ewbank’s Contemporary Art & Editions sale on January 25. Born Edith Louisa Hawkes, the self-styled Sylvia (1904-77) had been a chorus girl and actress when she and her paramour, the heir to the Earldom of ...
Sylvia (née Hawkes), Lady Ashley. (1904-1977), Actress and society beauty; former wife of Lord Ashley and of Douglas Fairbanks Sr and of 6th Baron Stanley of Alderley and of Clark Gable, and later wife of Prince Dimitri Djordjadze. Sitter in 10 portraits. Like.
Gable’s 4th wife – Lady Sylvia Ashley – was, as your website notes, first married to British nobility, but never to the “9th Duke of of Shaftesbury”. – First, there never was a “Duke” of Shaftesbury, as Shaftesbury is an Earldom, not a Duchy.
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