Credit: Less than a year later he was dead (cancer). To his delight, Enid fell pregnant, aged 51. As Enid's daughter Pat explained: 'It was considered best to get rich, young widows safely married and let them get on with whatever they wanted to do. It was her money, not his, that enabled him to keep a string of polo ponies. She was one of the first to step inside King Tutankhamen's tomb, having "entranced" archaeologist Howard Carter's sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, while in Cairo. Along came shipbuilding millionaire Marmaduke Furness, who had buried his pitifully ill young first wife, Daisy Hogg, at sea during what sounds like the yacht voyage from hell, and had then divorced Thelma, Lady Furness, as a result of her affair with the Prince of Wales. If you wanted to sum up the life of Enid Lindeman in a few words then the three nicknames she acquired over her lifetime of adventures would do the trick. Enid Lindeman had one goal in life: "marry well." Author celebrates sharks and encourages readers to change their attitudes towards the incredible beasts - insisting they aren't terrifying killers, Our putrid past: A raucously revealing new history tells how filth flowed through our streets, French royals enjoyed flatulence contests and a smelly goat in your house was thought to help ward off the plague, I felt the fear, but then I learnt to laugh again: Author who became transfixed by absurd worries such as forgetting to BREATHE reveals how he learned to manage his anxiety disorder by noting down his fears. With her money the family kept a string of polo ponies, Enid with her son Rory who she had with her first husband Roderick Cameron, Enid: The Scandalous High-society Life of the Formidable 'Lady Killmore' By Robert Wainwright ( Allen & Unwin, £16.99, 368pp), By Ysenda Maxtone Graham For The Daily Mail, 22:00 06 Aug 2020, updated 22:01 06 Aug 2020. Born Enid Maud on 8 January 1892, Lady Kenmare as she was to become, was the fifth child of Florence and Charles Lindeman, son of the man who had put Australia on the world stage for wine. ENID: THE SCANDALOUS HIGH SOCIETY LIFE OF THE FORMIDABLE ‘LADY KILLMORE’ By Robert Wainwright ( Allen & Unwin, £16.99, 368pp) Enid Lindeman’s first husband was a commoner, her second a general, her third a viscount, her fourth an earl. On marrying him in 1933, she handed over her Cameron fortune; not a good idea. When Enid fell off her horse, he managed to procure unlimited morphine from his doctor for them both. By Ysenda Maxtone Graham For The Daily Mail Jaws and wallets unfastened and her life – a cosmopolitan saga across London, New York, Paris, Cairo, and Nairobi – knew extravagant wealth, privilege and fame. She weaned herself off it; he didn't and became seriously ill. Did Enid win big in the casinos, or was it Duke's money that enabled her to acquire, in 1939, one of the great properties on the French Riviera, Villa La Fiorentina? They kept a dozen Rolls-Royces in Kenya, where Duke owned a safari lodge.
Depending on your taste, it comes across as either captivating or garish. And the socialite was also renowned for her menagerie of animals, including hyraxes, parrots, a mongoose, a pair of foxes and a pet cheetah she dared walk "on a diamond collar through Hyde Park in London". Enid lived on until 1973, spending her final widowhood breeding thoroughbreds in South Africa. PHOTO: Enid Lindeman was the dazzling eldest daughter of a well-to-do family (inset) who inherited their fortune from Dr Henry Lindeman, an early winemaker in the NSW Hunter Valley. In 2012 the home was sold for $US525 million. Property Noise Australia exists to provide an independent aggregationof Property News in Australia. Where you can buy on the beach for under $500,000, From a $330million property deal to making bags of cash from a visa scheme: Inside the dodgy dealings of Gladys Berejiklian's secret lover Daryl Maguire, Real Estate agents share their most bizarre property listings, New lending figures continue to defy COVID, Inside John Lennon’s iconic NYC penthouse, Escape to the country… for just $23,000: How to snap up a huge block of land in a prime country, Mamamia founder embroiled in messy property ownership battle. Believe it or not, property prices are set to rise! The family spent two months of every summer living it up in Le Touquet, before Cavendish died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1931, leaving an estate worth just £286.
Or how, while living under the Vichy government in France during World War II, she smuggled soldiers into her home – even saving one by disguising him as a maid. Six-feet tall, turquoise-eyed and beautiful, she halted Manhattan traffic and captured the gaze of gamblers in Monte Carlo. She sent them all straight back, playing hard-to-get. Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. Robert Wainwright thinks we should, having extensively researched the life of this prominent Australian socialite for his latest biography, Enid.
She drove ambulances during World War I and hid Allied prisoners from the Nazis in World War II. Who would have guessed that young, sporty Enid, an Australian wine merchant's daughter who grew up near Sydney, would one day be driving along Park Lane in a Bentley with her pet cheetah in a diamond collar? Peppered among these, as Wainwright chronicles, were innumerable paramours and fleeting trysts.
The glamour of this life is also undeniably compelling. BIOGRAPHYEnidRobert WainwrightAllen & Unwin, $32.99. Many pages are devoted to the family history and petulant behaviour of her suitors, which, though laboriously researched and detailed, can at times be tangential and dull. No one is quite sure. Restrained by the times, however, marriage was one of the limited means for women to secure social and economic capital. She went against the advice. Husband number four, Valentine Castlerosse, Earl of Kenmare, weighed 21 st and sounds sweet and very good company, apart from the occasional furniture-throwing jealous rage.
From childhood, Enid Lindeman, already comfortably off as an heiress to Lindeman's wines, had a plan: to marry a very rich man. Jack Callil is digital editor of Australian Book Review. Her beauty drove many others to despair, with one heartsick admirer throwing himself under the wheels of Le Train Bleu, while another jumped into shark-infested waters. He and Enid became part of the infamous Happy Valley set for three champagne-soaked months of each year — although Enid was never keen on orgies and would step over the writhing naked bodies when she got up in the night.
Duke was increasingly eaten up with self-loathing, and descended into drug and alcohol-fuelled binges. She is pictured on the day of her wedding to New York businessman Roderick Cameron in 1913, Enid moved into the villa La Fiorentina (pictured) on the French Riviera with her third husband in 1939. Yet Enid wanted more, envisioning a life spent beyond the sprawling vineyards of New South Wales. Or so Enid's life of "fact and fiction" goes. Enid, meanwhile, had four lady's maids, six cooks and her own private plane, as well as the cheetah. Well, it's clear Enid always knew a little about the finer things. Not the Vinegar. Gen. Frederick Cavendish; she was also the widow of Roderick Cameron. Enid and Pat managed to get back to England by selling off jewellery and hiding paper money in Pat's hair under her beret. Why sharks are in the soup!
Near the book's close, Wainwright details Enid's copious material possessions, in prose reminiscent of Oscar Wilde listing Dorian Gray's opulent silks and furs. Enid Lindeman and some male friends take to the saddle for a viewing of the pyramids and sphinx at Giza. Enid Lindeman and her daughter Pat.Credit: Less than a year later he was dead (cancer). 'I had always disliked my stepfather, but now I hated him,' said Pat. Enid Lindeman and her daughter Pat. 22:00 06 Aug 2020, updated 22:01 06 Aug 2020, ENID: THE SCANDALOUS HIGH SOCIETY LIFE OF THE FORMIDABLE 'LADY KILLMORE', By Robert Wainwright ( Allen & Unwin, £16.99, 368pp). Off she went to Paris, working as a volunteer nurse by day — she bought and kitted out her own ambulance to collect injured soldiers from the front — and changing in the evening into beaded and fringed dresses from the House of Worth to dine at top restaurants. For example, when we learn how she drove her own car-cum-ambulance to retrieve wounded men from the battlefront. There was misery behind the facade. Enid Lindeman's first husband was a commoner, her second a general, her third a viscount, her fourth an earl. Her moral code was: 'Never be afraid, never be ill (or don't talk about it) and, above all, never be jealous.'.
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