West-Europese adel » Alice "Kiki" Gwynne (1898-1946)

Personal data Alice "Kiki" Gwynne 


Household of Alice "Kiki" Gwynne

(1) She is married to George Edward Alexander Windsor Hertog van Kent.

They got married.


Child(ren):



(2) She is married to Horace Ransom Bigelow Allen.

They got married in the year 1919, she was 21 years old.

The couple were divorced in 1924.


(3) She is married to Jerome Preston.

They got married in the year 1925, she was 27 years old.


Notes about Alice "Kiki" Gwynne

Kiki was a scandalous presence among the Happy Valley set, noted both for her great beauty, as well as her wild lifestyle, which included partying all night long, rising from bed during dinnertime and drug abuse. Kiki had become a notorious drug addict by that point; she was especially fond of heroin, cocaine and morphine. She was nicknamed "the girl with the silver syringe", due to her habit of always carrying with her a syringe with which she injected herself. She was reported to often take out the silver syringe to inject herself, oblivious to onlookers. Swedish Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke's second wife, Cockie, once wittily remarked of Kiki: "She's very clever with her needle". Kiki was one of the best clients of the chief drug dealer of the Kenya colony, Frank Greswolde Williams, until his death in 1932. Whenever she was out of morphine, she would send an aeroplane to pick up new supplies.

Kiki had many lovers during that time, including actor Rudolph Valentino and Prince George, Duke of Kent, whom she first met in the mid-1920s. Through 1928, she introduced him to cocaine and morphine among other drugs. Reportedly, Prince George shared Kiki in a ménage à trois with Jorge Ferrara, the bisexual son of the Argentinian ambassador to England.

In his attempt to rescue his cocaine-addicted brother from the influence of Kiki, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom attempted for a while to persuade both George and Kiki to break off their contact, to no avail. Eventually, Edward forced George to stop seeing Kiki and also forced Kiki to leave England, while she was visiting George there in the summer of 1929. For years afterwards, Edward feared that George might relapse to drugs if he maintained his contact with Kiki. Indeed, in 1932, Prince George ran into Kiki unexpectedly at Cannes and had to be removed almost by force.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Alice Gwynne

David Eli Gwynne
1843-1900
Louise Hanna
????-1902
Helen Steele
????-1958

Alice Gwynne
1898-1946

(1) 

George Edward Alexander Windsor Hertog van Kent
1902-1942

Michael Temple Canfield
1926-1969
(2) 1919

Horace Ransom Bigelow Allen
????-1961

(3) 1925

Jerome Preston
1897-1934


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Historical events

Day of death December 23, 1946

  • The temperature on December 23, 1946 was between -9.3 °C and -2.0 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
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    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
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