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11 Facts About Priscilla Scott-Ellis

1.

Esyllt Priscilla "Pip" Scott-Ellis was a British diarist.

2.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis was one of only two women who volunteered to be nurses for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.

3.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis was educated at Queen's College, London, privately, at Benenden School and at a finishing school in Paris.

4.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis's siblings were Elisabeth Gwendolen, Hon.

5.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis was obsessed with Prince Ataulfo de Orleans who was a closet homosexual.

6.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis volunteered to be sent from Nazi Germany in the Condor Legion to support the Nationalist forces in Spain.

7.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis decided that she would do the same and after basic training she was in Spain in October 1937.

8.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis met diplomat Jose Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, in January 1944 and they married at Sanlucar de Barrameda on 20 September 1945.

9.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis's family did not approve and none of them could attend the wedding.

10.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis married Jose Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, on 27 September 1945.

11.

Priscilla Scott-Ellis married, secondly, Ian Hanson, a young opera singer from Manchester, in 1972.