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A Woman to Know: Sylvia Brooke

A Woman to Know: Sylvia Brooke

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Julia Carpenter
Dec 01, 2016
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I have done almost everything in life except two things: I have never had a son, and I have never come down in a parachute. — Sylvia Brett

(image via The Bodleian Library)


Born an English aristocrat, fashioned into worldwide royalty. After dating London playboys, daredevil pilots and even Hollywood star Erroll Flynn, she met her future husband at a neigh…

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