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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]
- Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck
- 12 June 1900, Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands
- Socialite and volunteer worker
- Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra
Apr 3, 2019 · It was something she rarely spoke of in detail. Part of the trauma was rooted in her mother Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra’s early Nazi sympathies, which are detailed in a new biography Dutch ...
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Nov 20, 2020 · Hepburn was born in Belgium in 1929, the daughter of Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a minor Dutch aristocrat, and Joseph Ruston, an Englishman who mostly absented himself from family life.
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Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra , who served as mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a granddaughter of ...
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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Baroness Ella van Heemstra, DStJ (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984) was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. After her marriage to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, she became a British citizen. Ella van Heemstra. Baroness van Heemstra.
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 ...
