Diana Forbes-Robertson (14 December 1914 – 9 December 1987) was a British writer.
Diana Forbes-Robertson | |
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 Diana Forbes-Robertson | |
| Born | Diana Forbes-Robertson 1914, London, England |
| Died | 1988 London, England |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
The daughter of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, Lady Forbes-Robertson, both actors, she was born in London and grew up in Kent. She spent her early years with her sisters Jean, Chloe and Maxine (known as Blossom) at Hartsbourne Manor, the home of her aunt Maxine Elliott, a wing of which was used exclusively by Miles's parents.[1]
She was educated at boarding schools and at a French school in London. In 1935, she married Vincent Sheean, an American journalist. The couple travelled to Spain, Czechoslovakia and other parts of Europe before moving to the United States. During their travels, Forbes-Robertson wrote for the New York Herald Tribune. The couple divorced in 1946 and remarried in 1949. They had two daughters.[2][3] She and her husband lived for a number of years in Italy, where he died in 1975.[4]
Forbes-Robertson died at the age of 72 in St Stephen's Hospital in London from a stroke while also suffering from pneumonia.[2]
Selected books edit
- The Battle of Waterloo Road (1941) with photographs by Robert Capa
- War Letters From Britain (1941), edited with Roger Williams Straus Jr.
- A Cat and a King novel (1949)
- My Aunt Maxine biography of her aunt Maxine Elliott (1964)
References edit
- ^ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (22 August 1909). "KING EDWARD SMILES ON MAXINE ELLIOTT; American Actress Admitted to the Circle of His Friends at Marienbad. PRAISED IN ENGLISH PRESS Miss Elliott Called "Handsomest Woman of Her Generation" - King Annoyed by Public Attention". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Diana Sheean, 72; Her Books Showed Britain in Wartime". New York Times. 16 December 1987.
- ^ "Papers about Diana Forbes-Robertson and Vincent Sheean". New York Public Library.
- ^ "Vincent Sheean". Traces. Archived from the original on 23 September 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
External links edit
- "Person Page". The Peerage.