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THE FASTEST FLIGHT

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SEX

C. D. T. Baker-Carr Recalls One of the World's Strangest Stories

The Astonishing Career

Rich,

Wedged

Of

Sophie

Bowes, was on acknow. Ang man of humour could marry cha sankaret.

oyster-seller, her.' AI 13

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They were doubly married Seghe was put into service at tagako on August 1, 1818, at a the theme od kamer, one Piedestent <hurch and nt

day for Hom

Dawes

Cleft. wath Two cors

la

t'atholic chapel,

Ive

Wate

# the relied list, and began to be evian ware generous with net

Sle

up- backwoodsman Ira Ly Lows Spludion Fram, Fust Loom Vilepartier, to Juke

bedchamber dowry tacos inuti of the Le manting to an annual income she chose at the duke's minious phoe was m

2006 haney. Her husband mem

TUINAK det, attending » Chelsea school

eleuted Buron Feucheres muts and relations.

vont kicked

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her

- by Wo

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She was

a pauper became a millionairess--and the

in France most talked-of woman

child.

she

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upon the

duke'a

Supling soon lost royal favour

mast avor ata poctived no reply. They and

of nor 1:14 buke ana shu gout, boiled an Miends. In 1637 she went home

he ide and there was the

gaving spent many Duke of Dowroom banging dead monus aveng round Europe To a window crich.

lying to enjoy we fruits of her 1119 feet wi just touchung vast income, which she had in- the ground. He was supported creusva by #

af phly PORT VES which were successful Qups on The Paris

of eight. mso a ngu

Stock Ebange. Her lle began lo gruntle about her.

and given the post of Gentleman Evan nor two cousins were not They passed under his chin, be-

head Mutuda was naricd

hopelessly infatuated.

ike

to

Jus

WILŻONAL

Confessions

Bestore the Duke of Bourbon's valet died he made a arath-bed CONLESSTUDI—that ou The Latai algh in August, 1830 he heard Rises in his master's coon und, on the back stuurs, mut Sophie coming down. They passed with- vut buying a word."

of the bedchamber in the duke's Longsein

Euro-but ituneenoid--a nice, frotile touch, to the marques de Chapuines, A pressing on the windpipe.

This Sophie was

with buloi

Beck was not broKANA, Royal Guard and

A chau a nephew of hur sherly lover, who was still a

window Wh of Talleyrand; James near the

too was mired

edmiral's away for the duke to hayo used But Tumour was at work and daugher who received from the it as a hangman's trap.

February,

1020,

dis- Duke of Bourbon 290,000 trancs, Consternation Sophie ran up

a small back stuurway into thu granted Busband was promoted wi estube at Flassins, end pro- 10 The rik of Lieut-Colonel nesten to the peerage as Baron room-through a door tial was

unlocked. freton were called HE Marquess of to brush up her meage educa- and made aide-de-camp to the de Flassana,

Winchelsea's card t. Two years later she be Duke In Bourton, Suplus, how-

rame the property of the Dake ever, still treated him with lofty was

but still göùng (liper- a betinod party Was in full of Bourbon,

fled the contempt and in March, 1824, the generos, Baron Lambot, who was He had

In the fireplace were several

A muld in the house also von- swing at his stately Fina Revolution

the brought matters anel

head by promply

fessed as she lay dying, that abe Inace the Duke of scraps of partially burnt paper "No, J'ai not the surEKAT'S of the gatilline to live admitting

A.D.C. wald A freshly made will7 A death had found a stained towel a few London home. Stakes were thre

note? No-liny were Bolbing days later high and luck was in for one

more significant than notes Kir though a speech long since delivered.

T

it

to a

L A487 Sophie's current tror ä AndSucide" was on everyone's

in Egland for nearly 25 years duke's daughter - I'm his mis- private secretary. But her plot-

Ann Lanuis XVIII came to the frezis."

IL

Ivuse Wantead

intets

wille resulbed, he sto ond he

G

dings and mungues now look on

Muster turn.

pint

Two Camps

which looked 13

thousands of

it night have been used of the visitors, the Duke of diogr

*Th dake WIN well Domestic Scuffle

strangle the Duke-before his "suicide, The old duke was without an Bourbon, when was dus known as a pruthgate,

Sophie Dawes, the millionaire cided to

daha asal deceiving much inmuly wagger un seme-

Maroness, he was living the using that the duke

advico as to who should innerit

Lavo thing more

than exciting

there with his father, the god torsewhup. The timely entry of

115 116 Baki vasi fortune.

AL unce le household, the pounds to Landon charities bul money. One young blood

ner of Conde... heard that as the Duke of Bourbon saved the Sopale pinned her hopes in the Court, the nation and the world found no happiness. On Decem That

end camo-~~~- suggested

Sophie

18-10, the only son had been assad situation-temporarily,

quarter the outside divided into two camps- ber 15, su ategic

un acule throat Infec- family of the Duke of Orleans, those who believed in the suicide through tall, beautifully heat of beside a ready-<lug Dawes,

But u lue family group was later t In Vincennes. This news

succed w the throne theory and those who pointed un tion which, in effect, strangled proportioned girl of JU, Brave

was to colour the remainder of an up, and Sophie sont fur when Charles X was forced to accusing finger at Sophie Dawes, her. She died as she may have

hersher. Mrs Dawes, Sophie the country, Dawes Sophie

life

Baroness of Feucheres, and her murdered. all set up home

her young sister Charlotte

latest lover,

identified Parts for ង

unly as Sous-Omleler "X" of the Gendarmerie. respectability und returned the Palus-Bourbon -- and duke

should be the prize.

young

Sophie's blue eyes sparkled akar her baroness, a million- with amuseme as she watched aness, a welcome visitor to the . But Sophie soun tired of the whist-playing peers and French Court and, most prob- the tables. At length the Duke

of Burbon, an exile in Britain, y, a murderess."

sat buck with a smile. Sophie

Dawes was his. The duke, a big

A Husband

rapidly

learned

Duke's Will

OTL

his

After months of wrangling the The investigation dragged on, her dulcs made

a will naming the with distant relatives of the deed Duke of Orleans' young son, the duke contesting the will and The doling dulce made a wilt Duke of Aumaio, us heir. And, doing their best to bring Sophie heavily-built man of 55 and i The duke set up Sophie in'a leaving Soplite his two estates of course, that was a clause before a judge and jury on multi-lithnaire in his native Londom house of her own. There at Saint-Loy and Boissy-and, that Septile should benent by cuplial charge. France, was delighted with his she

several of course, she was to enjoy the several million francs

But King Louis-Philippe, re- koroign languages plus 4 amal- revans-20,000 Irants a year— death, Her further reward for cently promoted from the Duke- Such is one account of how tering of Latin and Greek. In once. In 1825 he increased her part the intriguo was dom of Orleans, realised that his Sophie Dawes started on the 1815 was moved to Paris, chang- bis gifts gull further, bringing royal indication that she was tenure of the throne would be- road to riches. But there are inguse regularly cach year her annual income to about one now welcome at Court again. come more precarious than ever other stories that he found until in 1817,sho settled down at nullion francs.

Death came to the Duke of if his own part in the heirdom her in a Plendilly resort; that No. 9, Rue Neuve-des-Capucines, But the awowa of Live ducai Bourbon when he was a feeble intrigue were made public in a

stole hir nway from JU: Gaining

be the natural scatulal had reached the ears old man of 74. An early accident court of law. The examining ofless lover: that he bribed a daughter of the Duke of Bour- of the King, Louis XVIII, and had locked his left shoulder, a

magistrates were royal supporters rich foreigner at Tumham bon, to during his residence Sophie was no longer welcome at sword wound had rendered use of the monarchy and his wishes Green to "release" her.

The Archbishop of Paris, less

Jess three lingers

his right were obeyed, The facts were e Sophie had a a poer of France, declined an in- hand; he had nover fully ro- suppressed, Bankering after respectability vitation to dine with Sophie and covered from a fractured thigh

became the of Aumalo version, and so a husband was found for Bourbon, saying he would not and was suffering from a hernia. Duke Will was proved, the young officer provide the mantle of respec- In fact, he could only just walk main beneficiary and Sophie col.. Army on September her-33-year-olt

Adrian-Victor Feucheres, 20, 1702, the seventh child in a

who ability

lected would unaided.

two million trancs At 8 u.m, on August 27, 1830 furious that it wasn't meeting give. pauper family, in the little fish- was ujd

the four boat in the Chateau another

de Saint-Leu, million she said she had been

he

Seventh Child

the

true

Whatever Sophie was born

abroad.

All het

at his first Ing village of St. Helen's, in the with the duke: "I've known the

lale

Court

علان

presence

Burning yel

of Wight. Her father, lady since she was a baby..... Sophie had her husband placed one of Sophie's castles, a ser- promised.

LINDA,

L

INDA

CHRISTIAN

settled herself in a chaise-longue in the

bedroom of hor London

-A PLAIN MAN'S GUIDE TO—————

EDMUND and TYRONE-

★✩ MISS CHRISTIAN WISHES IT TO BE

KNOWN THAT EVERYONE IS FRIENDLY

She wanted it to be known Roblee. She works for a fashion that whatever she was (and magazine.

because of the transaction."

sordid money

No suffragette ever spoke up more foolingly, and illogically,

behalf of her sex. Despite Christian

hotel suite, smoothed her of the divorce spend two months pale

and of the you with their father, dress, green

"He didn't come to the airport whatever the state of her bith- "No, she's not a model." (I to moet me," pouted Miss Christ- roce ceiling), she was not, as have inco discovered that sho $350,000. Sho also has her

Bald:--

her loases, Miss still has a sizable jewel collection valued at about

million-dollar alimony bottle.

"Send for the plumber, lon. "I was told he had a bad hed Ivon leged, home writes about Aims and fim stament from Mr Power, based on

My bathroom cold. But when I took the chil- wreeker.

dren to him at his place in Lon-

don I found there was nothing asked for his freedom long be- "My husband came to me and wrong with him. He was fine, fore I'd even met Edmund." just find.

"But I don't mind. We're still

darling. ceiling in lenking."

"Darling." Wh10 WRA Mr Edmund Purdom, got up from his chair and went to the bath- room to inspect the celling, say ing it was probably only con- densation. But he discovered Mr Purdom said that he was that it wag n leak-lat bo ato a friend Ad Mr Power's from the floor upstairs, May- "Why not?" They were all very to comeone's trying to commit adult and Noel Cowardly about

very good friends. No hard feel- Ings."

By LOGAN GOURLAY

of

for nn Amaricari

a percentage of his earnings. Next subject

Mr Purdom is now making a naturally was whether or not Miss Christian determined effort to climb to and

Mr Purdom Intended to Miss Christion's fancial level. marry. Neither of them normally

A FREELANCE look coy, but they did so at that Ho sald: "I was under contract moment. "We can't make any to, M.G.M. But now wo've definite plans because Edmund's parted-by mutual consent. I've divorce in't Banl until next just made my first free-lance March,

flim and earned more than you can say that we're close did in a your with M.G.M. A hotel chambermaid came in there were

Lost time she was in London friends. Dear friends,"

rumours of a

I inquired about the jewels 20,000 plum 10 percent of the

profits," There was no suggestion that to have a look at the look in conciliation with Mr. Power. It $100,000 worth which she was Now be hopes to make a lim Tyrana Power, ex-husband of the bathroom eetling and left is now an unlicely oventuality. Robert Schisinger.

alven, by another friend, Mr in England co-elarring Miss Christian, might

be hurriedly saying she would wond "He has enother romantic in naked to return them to the

Bho, was Christian, of course. someone to fix it,

love story, a simple terest

(Like many Hollywood jewellers when they discovered love story," they aid, throwing valet arrived to take ó tow A of Mim, Christian's two dozen actresses she often talks like a Mr Schlesinger could not pay love but not simple, looks at dresses away for pressing

'chafuck in a, bad movie.)

"ľvo rearmed them now. But cuch other.

suicide."

Mus

NOT GRIEVING

micidity flooding in on over flowing bath upstaire, Miry Christian had

inde it

the whole thing.

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