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Hebe (née Constance Irene Vesselier, later Mrs Kingsland)

(1893-1969), Fashion model; wife of Arthur Kingsland

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Constance Irene was born in 1893 in Fulham, London. She began work as a model in the 1910s and it was whilst working for Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon and her couturiers, Maison Lucile that she was given the name Hebe. Of Hebe, in her autobiography Discretions and Indiscretions, Lady Duff-Gordon writes, ''Hebe', loveliest of them all, became a legend in Paris and had so many suitors that she could have married a dozen times over.' Hoppé photographed her twice in 1917 and it was following the portrait's inclusion in The Book of Fair Women and Hoppé's statement that she was the loveliest of them all that she became world-famous as a beauty. Hebe married millionaire Arthur Kingsland.

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