Diana Forbes-Robertson Explained

Diana Forbes-Robertson (14 December 1914  - 9 December 1987) was a British writer.

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: TIMES. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK. 1909-08-22. 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. en-US. The New York Times. 22 September 2021. 0362-4331.
  2. News: Diana Sheean, 72; Her Books Showed Britain in Wartime . New York Times . 16 December 1987.
  3. Web site: Papers about Diana Forbes-Robertson and Vincent Sheean . New York Public Library.
  4. Web site: Vincent Sheean . Traces . 21 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060923214435/http://www.traces.org/vincentsheean.html . 23 September 2006 . dead .