Marguerite Tangye

Lady Marguerite Tangye (24 April 1913 – 10 October 2002), born Lady Marguerite Rose Bligh, was the daughter of Esme Ivo Bligh, the 9th Earl of Darnley, and Daphne Mulholland. She was a famous debutante, model, and actress in 1930s London and was widely photographed. Lady Marguerite worked for the Mechanised Transport Corps in World War II and in later life held a variety of jobs as well as writing about her childhood in Brazil. Life Lady Marguerite's parents separated when she was three (divorcing in 1920) and her mother Daphne, along with Marguerite and her brother Peter, went to live with her parents, Alfred and Mabel Mulholland, at Worlingham Hall, Beccles. Daphne Mulholland then married Hugo Chandor, an old Etonian sheep farmer recently returned from Argentina. The new family moved to Tres Barras, in rural central Brazil, to build a sawmill. Following a revolution in Sao Paulo they were cut off completely for six months. After five years in Brazil, they returned to England and went back to Worlingham. Lady Marguerite attended Belstead School for two years from the ages of 13-15 but had little other formal education. She was a debutante and was presented at Court in 1931 and wore ‘a gown of ivory and silver lace and net over flesh pink crêpe de Chine’ with a silver train.