LADY ANNABEL GOLDSMITH PASSED AT AGE 91 : A VERY FULL LIFE

Here are some obituaries about Lady Annabel Goldsmith that are quite interesting including photographs. 

BBC NEWS : LADY ANNABEL GOLDSMITH DIES AT 91

Excerpt: Her youngest child Ben said she was "quite simply irreplaceable".

He added: "We are bereft, not for her – because her life has been extraordinary and complete - but for us, because of the immense hole in our lives she leaves behind."

Mr. Goldsmith said: "I spoke to her every day for 45 years, she truly had my back and we loved each other very much. I will miss her terribly."

THE GUARDIAN : LADY ANNABEL GOLDSMITH OBITUARY

Excerpt: Goldsmith, who has died aged 91, was herself a celebrity, accessible to journalists and happy to explain about the men in her life at a time when talking openly about being a mistress was still vaguely scandalous. Having married Birley as a teenager in 1954, she began a relationship with the financier Sir James Goldsmith 10 years later, having discovered that her first husband was a serial adulterer – as, it turned out, was her second.

By the time they married in 1978, she had two children with him and would go on to have a third, to add to three with Birley. He then embarked on further affairs, and remarked: “If you marry your mistress, you create a vacancy.”

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BACALLS "WORST NIGHTMARE" ? : AFTER HER DEATH MORE REVELATIONS ABOUT THE VERITA BOUVAIR - HUMPHREY BOGART RELATIONSHIP

THE GUARDIAN : CLANDESTINE MISTRESS OF BOGART DIES Vanessa Thorp - writer

Excerpt: Between 1950 and 1956 Thompson (her maiden name was Bouvaire) traveled with Bogart, ostensibly as his personal secretary, bartender, and hairdresser.  A hopeful starlet who had spent most of her youth in Mexico, Thompson had trained in wig-making and then established herself in Hollywood as an expert in the preparation of toupees, working for stars such as George Raft, Ray Milland, and Gary Cooper.  When she traveled with Bogart, she always carried a suitcase packed with 10 hairpieces, including a 'cocktail wig' and a 'shaggy wig."  The actor, Thompson once recalled, was practically bald but hated wearing a toupee. "I used to say, "You'll look like hell without it, like an old man."

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Bogart made a habit of introducing her in company as his 'mistress', explaining to Thompson later that he believed the joke would ensure suspicious minds were thrown off the scent. The two shared a passion for sailing and drinking that repeatedly left his wife Bacall stranded, according to Jeffrey Meyer's biography Bogart: A Life in Hollywood.

April 23 2022 Missy here.  Just a note that this article uses Meyer's book as a reference... I used Verita's book and was glad to know that this story was repeated in more than one book.