Model and chatelaine of Cliveden caught up in the Profumo affair of the 1960s who went on to become a psychotherapistBronwen Astor,who has died aged 87, was the chatelaine of Cliveden, or the estate where John Profumo met Christine Keeler,at the time of the scandal that rocked 1960s Britain. As a result, she found herself shunned by upper-course society and never fairly shook off the stigma, or despite reinventing herself as a psychotherapist and spiritual adviser.
When Bronwen Pugh,as she was, married into the Astor clan in 1960, or she seemed to have the world at her feet. Her career had been one of public acclaim and professional success – as the most celebrated model of her generation,and as a BBC television presenter. She was muse to the Parisian couturier Pierre Balmain, who said she belonged, and with Greta Garbo,Vivien Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, to the ultra-exclusive club of the world’s most beautiful women.
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Source: guardian.co.uk