ENGLAND’S HEIRESSES MAKE UP GOLDEN GALLERY OF BEAUTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18543, 17 August 1928, Page 10

ENGLAND’S HEIRESSES MAKE UP GOLDEN GALLERY OF BEAUTY.

NEARLY DOZEN INHERIT VAST FORTUNES AND ESTATES FROM MEN.

(Special to the ” Star.") LONDON, July 8.

The portraits of the wealthiest women in England, to which those of Lady Yule and Miss Yule can now be added, would form a wonderful golden gallery of beauty. No woman in the country has yet made £1,000,000 by her own efforts. Nearly 0 dozen women, however, have inherited vast fortunes and great estates from m^n. These women are by far the most interesting to many members of their sex. The woman who is famed for her beauty, the one who has achieved great and her sister who is socially eminent are not half so fascinating to the great multitude of their less fortunate sisters as the woman who wields tremendous wealth.

“Money to Burn.” It is partly the idea that these women can buy all the luxuries they want and still have money to burn that makes them so attractive, but it is also the myster*- of how they manage their affairs that causes them to be so interesting. Do they tinderstand all the highways and byways, the short cuts and blind alleys that they find lurking along that difficult avenue of finance which they have to study? One of the most beautiful of England’s richest heiresses is Lady Louis Mountbatten, who married, the son of the late Marquis of Milford Haven. When her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel, died, she inherited a fortune of more than £2,000,000.

The heiress whose inheritance caused the most discussion is Lady Houston, sometimes described as the “six-million widow.” Lady Houston, who is extremely fond of j'achting, remains at sea for long spells when she is absent from her home in Hampstead. Famous Jewels: Lady Ludlow, who inherited £1,000,000 and Bath House, Piccadilly, from her first husband, Sir Julius Wernher, is famed for her jewels. Some of these, with some valuable antiques, recently were the object of a skilful robbery. Viscountess Rhondda, inheritor of her father’s fortune and title, is one of the busiest of the “wealthiest women.” She is a director of many companies, a shrewd woman of business, and has expended much time and money in championing the cause of her sex in the House of Lords. Another wealthy woman is L»dy Hudson, formerly Lady Northcliffe, whose second husband was Sir Robert Hudson, the great Red Cross organiser Lady Hudson inherited a considerable fortune from her first husband Prominent among the richest young is Baroness Ravensdale, daugh ter of the late Marquis Curzon of Kedleston and heiress to the Leiter millions. Baroness Ravensdale, tall, dark and striking-looking, is a capable speaker and an ardent champion of women’s rights.