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Lady Evelyn Buchan, "The Pocket Venus", had been abandoned by her husband, Lord Moyne, alias Walter Guinness, the Irish brewer, for the dancer Ida Rubinstein, who in 1910 was performing in Diaghilev's production of the ballet "Sherezade".
Walter Guinness spent a fortune on this woman: a sumptuous mansion in the Place des États-Unis in Paris, tours and ballets.
She would place her fortune (and that of her lover, the Irish magnate Walter Guinness) at the service of that ambition.
She would place her fortune (and that of her lover, the Irish magnate Walter Guinness) at the service of her ambition.
When the Germans invaded France in 1940, she fled to England via Algeria and Morocco, the way eased by her long-time lover and sponsor Walter Guinness.
There she helped wounded Free French soldiers until 1944. Walter remained supportive, providing a suite at the Ritz Hotel, until he was assassinated by the Stern Gang in late 1944.
