| 词条 | Herta Groves |
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Herta "Georgette" Groves (April 1920 – 27 April 2016) was an Austrian-born British milliner who made hats for Queen Elizabeth II. Early lifeGroves grew up in Vienna, the daughter of Jewish parents, Wilhelm and Amelia. Her father died of pneumonia which he caught after being forced at gunpoint to shovel snow from the streets of Vienna, and her mother and younger sister Alice died in a Latvian concentration camp in 1942.[1] Life in BritainGroves emigrated to Britain and founded the London Hat Company, creating hats based on her own couture designs.[1] The firm was successful and made hats for Queen Elizabeth II.[1][2][3] Groves was married twice, and lived in St John's Wood.[2] DeathGroves died on 27 April 2016, aged 96, after being knocked down by a lorry following a concert at London's Wigmore Hall.[1][2] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|author=Camilla Turner |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/05/queens-hatmaker-who-fled-nazis-is-killed-in-wigmore-hall-lorry-c/ |title=Queen's hatmaker who fled Nazis is killed in Wigmore Hall lorry crash |website=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2016-01-19 |accessdate=2016-05-06}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Groves, Herta}}{{UK-bio-stub}}2. ^1 2 {{cite web|last=Robertson |first=Alexander |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576590/Queen-s-hatmaker-96-fled-Nazi-occupied-Austria-helped-Jewish-women-escape-Hitler-knocked-killed-lorry.html |title=Queen's hatmaker Herta Groves is killed by a lorry outside Wigmore Hall in London | Daily Mail Online |website=Dailymail.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-05-06}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=Matt Watts |author2=Barney Davis |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/refugee-96-who-saved-jewish-women-from-hitler-named-as-lorry-crash-victim-a3240566.html |title=Wigmore Hall crash victim was refugee, 96, who saved Jewish women from Hitler | London | News | London Evening Standard |website=Standard.co.uk |date=2016-04-27 |accessdate=2016-05-06}} 11 : 1920 births|2016 deaths|People from Vienna|People from St John's Wood|Austrian emigrants to England|Businesspeople in fashion|Milliners|Pedestrian road incident deaths|Road incident deaths in London|British fashion designers|Austrian fashion designers |
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