Fiona Campbell-Walter

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Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter, formerly Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, (born 25 June 1932) is a New Zealand-born British model. She had a successful career in the 1950s and was photographed by Henry Clarke and Cecil Beaton. Campbell-Walter was known for her relationship with Greek shipping heir Alexander Onassis, whom she began an affair with after separating from her husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva.

Early life and family[]

Campbell-Walter was born on 25 June 1932 in Takapuna, Auckland to Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Campbell-Walter and Frances Henriette Campbell.^[1] She is a member of the Scottish Clan Campbell and a descendant of the Campbell baronets of Airds. Her father was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and an aide-de-camp to George VI and Elizabeth II. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Campbell, 1st Baronet, and was a granddaughter of Arthur John Warren. She is an aunt of Jamie Campbell-Walter.

Career[]

Campbell-Walter's mother encouraged her to model and, as a teenager, she was photographed by Henry Clarke.^[1] She joined the Lucie Clayton Charm Academy, a London-based modelling agency and finishing school. She signed as a model and was a favorite of the photographer Cecil Beaton.^[1] In the 1950s she was earning up to £ 2,000 a day. In January 1953 she was featured on the cover of Life Magazine and was featured in Vogue. She was also photographed by John French, Elsbeth Juda, , and David Bailey and modelled for Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, and Elsa Schiaparelli.^[1]

Personal life[]

On 17 September 1956 she married Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva at Castagnola, a Swiss village on the coast of Lake Lugano. She was the third wife of Thyssen-Bornemisza, a Dutch-born German-Swiss heir and art collector who was a member of the Hungarian nobility.^[1][2][3] Upon her marriage, she became a baroness, retired from modelling and moved to the Villa Favorita on Lake Lugano.^[1] She and her husband had two children:

• Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 7 June 1958); married Archduke Karl von Habsburg
  • Eleonore von Habsburg (born 28 February 1994 in Salzburg). Married Jérôme d'Ambrosio on 20 July 2020. ^[4]
  • Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg (born 21 June 1997 in Salzburg)
  • Gloria (born 15 October 1999 in Salzburg)
• Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 15 June 1963)

She divorced Thyssen-Bornemisza on 20 January 1965 and moved to London with her children.^[1] In 1969 she received media attention for her affair with Greek shipping heir Alexander Onassis, the only son of Aristotle Onassis.^[5] Onassis had invited Campbell-Walter, 16 years his senior and his mother's friend, to a dinner party. ^[6] The relationship reportedly ended after the intervention of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis^{[citation needed]}.

References[]

Sources[]

• Evans, Peter (1987). Ari: The Life, Times and Women of Aristotle Onassis. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-009961-4.