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Robert Wainwright, who believed that Sheila Chisholm’s life had to be reconstructed fragment by fragment, has written the biography of the confident, cheerful and enigmatic Australian. Summary of the Book Sheila met Lord Loughborough in Egypt, during the First World War, who would later become her first husband. The young and strikingly beautiful damsel bewitched the British society, and spent most of her years inside the mansions, clubs and palaces of the elite in London. She also had a secret affair with Bertie, who would later become George VI, caused fallings-out at the Buckingham Palace. She then became Lady Milbanke and ended her days as Princess Dimitri of Russia. The woman had won many hearts in her lifetime, in spite of being a darling name for the gossip columns. This account will also talk about the Sheila that not many people knew and didn’t try to understand. About Robert Wainwright Robert Wainwright has been a journalist for 25 years. His brilliant career has ranged from politics to crime, always converging in making the people the major news of the day. Robert has also authored: Rose: The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous, The Lost Boy, and The Killing of Caroline Byrne.