THE THREE D's : COURTESANS OF THE RIVIERA

Who were The Three D's, known mistresses on the Riviera?

Lady Diana Manners, was born the daughter of the Duchess of Rutland by her lover, rather than her husband.  She visited Maxine Elliot's villa in the 1930's.  Her son  John Julius Duff was a serial philanderer who had that affair with Daisy Fellowes.

Diana Guiness was married but living as the mistress of Tom Mosely.


And Daisy Fellowes herself.

Ah yes, The Riviera Set by Mary Lovell does DROP NAMES!  Not all of these liaisons are given detail but you get the idea that the aristocracy had a lot of players, male and female.

MISTRESS DAISY FELLOWES - DUFF COOPER

Daisy Fellowes, was a Princess, as widow of Prince de Broglie, and an heiress to the singer sewing machine fortune.  (See my posts on dancer Isadora Duncan who was the Mistress of Paris Singer, another heir!) She was rich herself. It's said she had lovers in the hundreds.  Was she "a nympho"  (It's been a long time since I heard that term applied to anyone!)  What else about Daisy?  She was stick thin and had a nose job.  She liked vodka, cocaine, and opium.  And if you read the book "20th Century Jewelry, the Icons of Style, that I reviewed 5/26/18, you'll see pictures of Daisy and her jewelry.

As a Mistress, she is known to have been kept by Duff Cooper.

The reference for this post is from the book by Mary Lovell, The Riviera Set.

 image from the National Portrait Gallery, by Cecil Beaton

DAISY FELLOWES (1887 -1962) Fashion Leader, wife of Hon. Reginald Fellowes.

From SEPTEMBER 2010 BAZAAR MAGAZINE : ARTICLE ON DAISY FELLOWES

Just browsing through SEPTEMBER 2010 fashion in Bazaar Magazine, reading an article by David Vincent about THE MOST STYLISH AND WICKED WOMAN IN FASHION, DAISY FELLOWES.
She was the Harper's Bazaar Paris editor in the 1930's.

page 415

"When Fellowes hosted dinner parties, she'd invite people who hated one another and watch the carnage. Wives and mistresses were seated next to each other. Still, no one would think of refusing to attend....

"On the birthday of Princess Aspasia of Greece... Fellowes had one of her daughters deliver a stuffed monkey as a gift. The princess's husband had been killed by a monkey bite. "It was very Versailles, Louis XIV's mistresses all vying for power and instigating coups against each other, says Pamela Golbin, curator in chief of the Musee de la Mode et due Textile in Paris....

"Unsurprisingly, Fellowes' love life was just as complicated. At 20, she married Prince Jean de Broglie. "The prince started up with the chauffeur as soon as he got married, " says (Karl)Lagerfeld. "They all do that." Somehow the couple managed to have three daughters. The price died during World War I.... Seventeen months later, she married the Honorable Reginald Fellowes, grandson of the the 7the Duke of Marlborough, son of Lady Rosamond Spencer-Churchill, and cousin of Winston. With him, she had a fourth daughter. She remained devoted but not faithful. Her hobby was married men..."