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10 Facts About Sheila Chisholm

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Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm was an Australian socialite and "it girl" in British high society during and after World War I She married three times: Francis St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough ; Sir John Charles Peniston Milbanke, 11th Bt; and Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia.

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Sheila Chisholm was born on 9 September 1895 at Woollahra, Sydney, youngest child and only daughter of grazier Harry Harry Chisholm and his wife Margaret, nee Mackellar who owned a family property "Wollogorang", the centre of the locality now called Wollogorang, near Breadalbane, New South Wales.

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Sheila Chisholm recalled how she liked to "go out further than the furthest man" when swimming at Bondi Beach, until she witnessed a man lose his leg in a shark attack.

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Sheila Chisholm was attracted to the arts and had a deep appreciation for Australia's flora and fauna.

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In Cairo, Sheila Chisholm met the first of her three husbands, Lord Loughborough.

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Sheila Chisholm dated Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino, who gave her his "lucky bracelet".

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Sheila Chisholm died six months later, causing Chisholm to think it was because she had taken his luck.

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Sheila Chisholm inspired British author Evelyn Waugh to write his celebrated 1948 novel The Loved One.

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Sheila Chisholm is buried at Rosslyn Chapel in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.

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Sheila Chisholm's son commissioned a stained glass window of St Francis of Assisi surrounded by animals which can be seen in the chapel's baptistry.