Daily Mail - 28.08.2019

Page 32 Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 28, 2019

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HLOE Courtauld

shattered con-

vention when

she appeared in

Country Life’s

celebrated ‘Girl in

Pearls’ page dressed

i n leathers, astride a

flame-red motorbike,

showing just a glimpse of

diamond necklace.

But that famous shot has now

become a heart-breaking

memorial as Chloe has died

suddenly aged only 47.

‘It’s a real tragedy,’ a family

friend tells me. ‘She was

utterly delightful.’

Chloe, pictured, a scion of the

family which made its fortune

from textiles in the 19th century

and founded London’s world-

renowned Courtauld Institute

of Art, is understood to have

been discovered gravely ill

earlier this month.

She died some time later at

the John Radcliffe Hospital in

Oxford. Cruelly, it is not the

first such tragedy suffered by

the family, as her beloved only

sibling, Jamie, who was two

years her senior, died equally

suddenly in 2012.

Chloe made headlines when

she and a friend trekked over

200 miles across Greenland’s

ice-cap in 21 days.

The 2009 expedition was

inspired by her great-uncle,

Augustine Courtauld, who

survived one of the most extra-

ordinary feats in Arctic explora-

tion when he endured five

months alone in the Thirties.

He was rescued from the

polar ice floes having spent the

entire time in temperatures of

minus 41C.

Professor Julian Dowdeswell,

director of the Scott Polar

Research Institute for which

Chloe’s expedition raised

significant funds, tells me: ‘It’s

tragic. Chloe was a very good

and highly motivated person.’

When she dazzled in Country

Life in 1998, the magazine’s

then features editor, Melanie

Cable-Alexander, described her

as ‘perfect’, hailing her as ‘a

blast of fresh air’ and ‘very,

very beautiful’.

After working in motor racing,

she embraced the eco-

movement, before taking a job

in marketing for the fashionable

Kingham Plough restaurant in

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Chloe had a younger extended

family as her mother,

Anthea, had another daughter

by her second husband,

Hugh Wodehouse.

Her father, Richard Courtauld,

had two more daughters with

his second wife, the model-

turned-photographer Jill Ken-

nington, who was twice Vogue’s

cover-girl and also appeared in

cult Sixties film, Blow-Up.

Beckinsale’s

debut... with

her godfather!

KATE Beckinsale has appeared along-

side countless fellow actors during her

28-year career, but none has given her

more joy than David Bradley, with

whom she stars in forthcoming

Hollywood action-comedy Jolt.

For Bradley, 77, who is best known as

Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in the

Harry Potter films, is godfather to

Kate, the 46-year-old daughter of late

Porridge star Richard Beckinsale.

‘He was my dad’s best mate and it is

the first time we worked together,’

she says. ‘So happy.’

AGED 98 and officially ‘retired’,

Prince Philip is still quietly carrying

out royal duties. I learn that he

joined the Queen in officially

receiving his former chief clerk

and accountant Paul Hughes at

Balmoral. He witnessed the Queen

investing Hughes with the insignia

of a lieutenant of the Royal

Victorian Order.

■

PASSIONATE painter Prince

Charles wants to turn his

Scottish stately home into a

creative hub. The Prince’s

Foundation has applied to

convert dilapidated

Coachford Cottage into

accommodation as part of its

■ artists-in-residence

programme on the Dumfries

House estate. Janet Casey, of

the Royal Drawing School,

says it would offer more

artists the opportunity to

work in the ‘inspirational

environment’ at Dumfries.

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TODAY’S ANSWER

Courtauld tragedy as

dies suddenly aged just