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Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. (11 January 1858 – 8 May 1947) [1] [3] was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges.The early years of his leadership of Selfridges led to his becoming one of the most respected and wealthy retail magnates in the United Kingdom.
Rosalie Amelia Selfridge (née Buckingham; 5 July 1860 – 12 May 1918) was a property developer before becoming the wife of department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. A member of the wealthy Buckingham family of Chicago , she inherited a large amount of investment property.
Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London.It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909. [1] Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m 2) of selling space, [2] the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK [1] (after Harrods). [2]
Mr Selfridge is a British period drama television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his department store, Selfridge & Co, in London, set from 1908 to 1928. It was co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece / WGBH [ 1 ] for broadcast on ITV .
Rose Selfridge (1860–1918), American heiress and wife of Harry Selfridge; Thomas Oliver Selfridge (1804–1902), United States Navy admiral; Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr. (1836–1924), United States Navy admiral and son of Thomas O. Selfridge; Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), US Army lieutenant and the first person to die in a powered airplane ...
It's possible that Jackie was Jack's second wife. It is rumored that he and socialite Durie Malcolm eloped after a drunken party in Palm Beach in 1947. But John's father, Joseph P. Kennedy ...
Selfridge lavished Jenny with expensive gifts and funded both sisters' gambling habit. The Dolly Sisters reportedly gambled approximately $4 million of Selfridge's money away. [11] While she was still involved with Selfridge, Jenny Dolly began seeing French pilot Max Constant. In 1933, Selfridge offered Jenny $10 million to marry him. [citation ...
Here, see the real photos of Charles, William, and Harry in Vancouver in March 1998, and the young women who participated in "Willsmania," as recreated in The Crown season six: The trio stayed at ...