| 词条 | Constance Lewis |
| 释义 |
}}Constance Edwina Lewis, CBE (formerly Grosvenor, née Cornwallis-West; 16 May 1875 – 21 January 1970), also known as Shelagh, was an English socialite and peeress.[1] Duchess of WestminsterConstance Edwina Cornwallis-West was the youngest child of William and Mary Cornwallis-West. She was very close to her sister, Daisy, Princess of Pless. At a party at Blenheim Palace, Mary asked the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to convince Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, to marry her daughter. The pair were married on 16 February 1901 and moved into Grosvenor House on Park Lane, a mansion that the Duke had inherited from his grandfather.[2] Later they lived together at Eaton Hall, Cheshire.[2] The Duke was one of the richest men in the world.[3] They had three children:
The Duchess was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics as owner and extra crewmember of the 8-metre bronze medal-winning yacht Sorais.[4] She distributed the diplomas of special merit to the competitors of the other Olympic sports on 25 July 1908. The marriage was happy at first and the couple shared many interests, including yachting and motor racing. However, her parents' expectation of personal financial gain through the marriage and her own long absence from home affected her marriage to the conservative Duke. In 1909, the couple's only son and heir apparent to the dukedom died following an operation for appendicitis while the Duchess was away. The Duke accused her of neglecting the child, and the Duchess did not attend the boy's funeral.[2] It was rumoured that the Duchess was having a secret liaison with the Duke of Alba,[2] whilst her husband had what he described as his own "nocturnal adventures".[2] Nonetheless, the couple appeared together at social events until the birth of their youngest child, Lady Mary. In 1913, the Duke requested separation but, with the outbreak of the First World War, the couple turned their attention to war service – the Duke joined his regiment and the Duchess sponsored a military hospital in Le Touquet, housed in a local casino.[3][5] Later lifeIn 1918, the Duchess was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her service in the war. The couple were divorced – on the grounds of the Duke's adultery and desertion – the following year, with the decree being made absolute 19 December 1919.[3] The alimony settlement of £13,000 a year he made upon her was then the largest in British legal history.[7] The couple remained on friendly terms after 1919, hosting their daughters' debut balls together. Because their subsequent interactions were amicable, it has been surmised that both parties collaborated to achieve the divorce because each wanted to end the marriage and to remarry.[8] On 14 January 1920, aged 44, the former Duchess of Westminster secretly married her private secretary and agent, Captain John Fitzpatrick Lewis, then in his thirties, at Lyndhurst, Hampshire. She had met Lewis early in the war, while he was being treated at her hospital in Le Touquet.[9][10] They had no children. The former duchess died aged 94. Dennis Wheatley dedicated his 1961 thriller Vendetta in Spain to her. Ancestry{{ahnentafel|align=center | boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; | boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; | boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; | boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; | boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; | 1= 1. Constance Lewis | 2= 2. William Cornwallis-West | 3= 3. Mary FitzPatrick | 4= 4. Frederick Richard West | 5= 5. Theresa Whitby | 6= 6. Frederick FitzPatrick | 7= 7. Lady Olivia Taylour | 8= 8. Frederick West | 9= 9. Maria Myddelton | 10= 10. John Whitby | 11= 11. Mary Anne Symonds | 12= 12. Frederick FitzPatrick | 13= 13. Edwina Stone | 14= 14. Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort | 15= 15. Olivia Stevenson | 16= 16. John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr | 17= 17. Mary Wynyard | 18= 18. Richard Myddelton | 19= 19. Elizabeth Rushout | 20= 20. Thomas Whitby | 21= 21. Mabella Turton | 22= 22. Thomas Symonds | 23= 23. Elizabeth Mallett | 24= 24. Joseph FitzPatrick | 25= 25. Mary Persse | 26= 26. Thomas Stone | 27= 27. Anna Maria Edwin | 28= 28. Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort | 29= 29. Mary Quin | 30= 30. Sir John Stevenson | 31= 31. Anne Morton }} See also
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Princess Daisy of Pless: the happy years |url=http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/westminster1.html}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Constance}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite book |last=Picardie |first=Justine |title=Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life |location=London |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2010 |pages=149–57}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web |last=Harris |first=Russell |title=Lafayette L5112 |url=http://www.rvondeh.dircon.co.uk/westminster1.html |work=Princess Daisy of Pless: The Happy Years |publisher=Victoria & Albert Museum |accessdate=20 October 2012 |location=London |year=2011}} 4. ^{{cite news |last=Toms |first=Jan |title=Olympic Ladies – the 1896, 1900, 1904 and London's 1908 Olympiad |url=https://www.google.ba/search?hl=sr&noj=1&q=%22Constance%2C+Duchess+of+Westminster%2C+first+wife+of+the+second+Duke%2C+was+the+owner+of+bronze+medal+winning+yacht+Sorais.%22&oq=%22Constance%2C+Duchess+of+Westminster%2C+first+wife+of+the+second+Duke%2C+was+the+owner+of+bronze+medal+winning+yacht+Sorais.%22&gs_l=serp.3...5927.5927.0.6391.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.pchsnhe..0.0...1.1.Xm5L_QPFRn0 |accessdate=20 October 2012 |newspaper=Suite101 |date=11 May 2012 |location=Vancouver BC}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Le Touquet Paris-Plage – History. |url=http://www.letouquet-lemascaret.co.uk/LeTouquetHistory.htm |work=Le Touquet Holidays |year=2011}} 6. ^{{cite web |last1=Donovan |first1=Henry |title=Chicago Eagle |url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=CHE19190712&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# |website=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections |accessdate=26 June 2015}} 7. ^{{cite book|title=The Guinness Book of Records|year=1972|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|page=200}}This record stood as late as the 1970s. According to National Archives currency converter, this figure in 1920 (nearest year to the divorce) was worth £275,730 a year in 2005. 8. ^Lady Mary's debutante ball 1928 was jointly hosted by the Duke (now married to Loelia Ponsonby and Mrs John Fitzpatrick Lewis (Constance).{{cite news |title=Lady Mary says:-- |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2293&dat=19280701&id=_v0mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=swIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=839,5524556 |accessdate=20 October 2012 |newspaper=The Sunday Morning Star |date=1 July 1928 |location=Wilmington DE |page=23}} 9. ^{{cite news |title=Duchess married to army aviator |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/01/24/106360693.pdf |accessdate=24 October 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 January 1920 |location= |page=}} 10. ^{{cite news |title=Duchess of Westminster; a secret marriage |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19200126.2.22 |accessdate=24 October 2012 |newspaper=The Press |date=23 January 1920 |location= |page=6}} 14 : 1877 births|1970 deaths|West family|Duchesses of Westminster|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|British women in World War I|British female sailors (sport)|Sailors at the 1908 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre|Olympic sailors of Great Britain|Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain|Olympic medalists in sailing|English socialites|Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics|FitzPatrick dynasty |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。