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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.
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.
Bean was married three times. His first marriage was in 1956 to actress Jacqueline de Sibour, whose stage name was Rain Winslow. Sibour was the daughter of French nobleman and pilot Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife Violette B. Selfridge (daughter of American-born British department-store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge).
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They also played Violette Selfridge in the first series of the ITV drama Mr Selfridge. They played various voices in the Three Little Pigs app. In August 2011, Wilson joined Youth Music Theatre UK as a member of the Korczak company, as they performed a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. [3]
Selfridges Group was a holding company of European department stores.At the time of its acquisition by the Central Group and Signa Holding in 2022, it owned the full-line stores Arnotts and Brown Thomas in Ireland, De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, and Selfridges in the United Kingdom.
Eva Marie Veigel was born in Vienna.She was a well-known dancer of her day, using the stage name Violette or Violetti, said to be a nickname given to her by Empress Maria Theresa based on the meaning of her surname—a corruption from the Middle High German viol, "violet."
Markham has had a long career in the cinema, television and theatre as an actress. Among her television appearances are roles in Edward & Mrs. Simpson, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, A Very British Coup, Van der Valk, The Line of Beauty, Minder, Cracker, Agatha Christie's Poirot (The Double Clue), Sherlock Holmes' Wisteria Lodge and Mr Selfridge.