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Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (9 September 1895 – 13 October 1969) was an Australian socialite and "it girl" in British high society during and after World War I. She married three times: Francis St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (heir to the 5th Earl of Rosslyn ); Sir John Charles Peniston Milbanke, 11th Bt; and Prince ...
Sheila Chisholm and second husband Sir John 'Buffles' Milbanke at Ascot. Rosslyn Collection. It was something of a coup for former Fairfax journalist, now London-based, Robert Wainwright to gain the co-operation and trust of Sheila's family, and access to her privately published memoir, Waltzing Matilda.
30 de ago. de 2021 · After Buffles death Sheila married Dimitri Romanov, a friend for many years, who was one of the last Tsar’s relations who had been rescued in 1917 by a destroyer sent by King George V . Sheila opened a travel agency Milbanke Travel in 1954 based in Fortnum and Masons which was very successful .
Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the next half a century inside the palaces, mansions and clubs of the elite.
Undeterred, Sheila opened a travel agency in Fortnum & Mason and took a third husband, Prince Dimitri Romanoff, with whom she lived happily until her death in 1969.
On 14 November 1928 she married 26-year-old Sir John Charles Peniston ('Buffles') Milbanke. Sheila Milbanke appeared in the diaries of (Sir) Henry ('Chips') Channon, a leader of London society, who in January 1935 declared her to be 'calm, lovely, gentle, restful and perfect'.
On 29 October 1954 at the register office, St Marylebone, she married Dimitri Alexandrovitch Romanoff, a Russian prince and a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I. They lived modestly at Belgravia. In 1967 they came to Australia, her first visit home since flying to Sydney in 1937 to see her mother.
