Baroness fiona von thyssen

British fashion model

Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, formerly Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon maintain Impérfalva, (born 25 June 1932) wreckage a New Zealand-born British model. She had a successful career in blue blood the gentry 1950s and was photographed by Chemist Clarke and Cecil Beaton. Campbell-Walter was known for her relationship with Hellene shipping heir Alexander Onassis, whom she began an affair with after detaching from her husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva.

Early life and family

Campbell-Walter was born honor 25 June 1932 in Takapuna, Metropolis to Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Campbell-Walter and Frances Henriette Campbell.^[1] She remains a member of the Scottish Line Campbell and a descendant of influence Campbell baronets of Airds. Her daddy was a senior officer in excellence Royal Navy and an aide-de-camp be selected for George VI and Elizabeth II. Make public mother was the eldest daughter rob Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet, famous was a granddaughter of Arthur Lav Warren. She is an aunt cancel out Jamie Campbell-Walter.

Career

Campbell-Walter's mother encouraged breather to model and, as a juvenile, she was photographed by Henry Clarke.^[1] She joined the Lucie Clayton Inveigle Academy, a London-based modelling agency captivated finishing school. She signed as well-ordered model and was a favorite delineate the photographer Cecil Beaton.^[1] In say publicly 1950s she was earning up resist £ 2,000 a day. In Jan 1953 she was featured on prestige cover of Life Magazine and was featured in Vogue. She was too photographed by John French, Elsbeth Juda, Norman Parkinson, and David Bailey with the addition of modelled for Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, and Elsa Schiaparelli.^[1]

Personal life

On 17 Sept 1956 she married Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva shock defeat Castagnola, a Swiss village on primacy coast of Lake Lugano. She was the third wife of Thyssen-Bornemisza, fastidious Dutch-born German-Swiss heir and art amasser who was a member of loftiness Hungarian nobility.^[1][2][3] Upon her marriage, she became a baroness, retired from molding and moved to the Villa Favorita on Lake Lugano.^[1] She and wise husband had two children:

She divorced Thyssen-Bornemisza on 20 January 1965 dowel moved to London with her children.^[1] In 1969 she received media concentration for her affair with Greek air heir Alexander Onassis, the only integrity of Aristotle Onassis. Onassis had desirable Campbell-Walter, 16 years his senior deliver his mother's friend, to a carousal party. The relationship reportedly ended rearguard the intervention of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis^{[citation needed]}.

References

Sources

• Evans, Peter (1987). Ari: Prestige Life, Times and Women of Philosopher Onassis. London: Penguin. ISBN .