Lady Hambro

Lady Hambro (4 December 1933 – 27 March 2017), born Cherry Felicity Huggins, was a British journalist who was associated with the fashion scene in 1960s swinging London when she worked for Vogue, Queen magazine and as the first fashion editor of the Saturday colour magazine of The Daily Telegraph. In her youth she was known for her love of aircraft, fast cars, fast boats and fast men. Later, she was the second wife of the banker Lord Hambro.

Cherry Huggins was born in Penang, Malaysia, on 4 December 1933 to Sir John Huggins (1891–1971) and Molly Huggins (née Green). She was the second of three sisters. Her father was a colonial administrator in Penang and subsequently Trinidad. He was governor of Jamaica 1943–51. She was educated at Roedean School in England, and at a finishing school in New York, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from the age of 17 where she won the Silver Medal.

Noël Coward visited while the family were at King's House, Jamaica, and wrote a verse for Cherry:

Huggins learned to fly at the Fairoaks Aero Club near Woking, Surrey, making her first solo flight in 1955. She also enjoyed fast cars and boats and in 1957 turned down a marriage proposal from the racing driver Mike Hawthorn who died in a crash off the racing track in 1959. In 1960, she married her flying instructor Peter Twiss who broke the world air speed record as the first man to fly faster than 1,000 mph. She was the third of his five wives. They had a daughter, the writer Miranda Twiss, who was born in 1961, but they were divorced not long after. In 1963 they both competed in the Daily Express International Offshore Powerboat Race from Cowes to Torquay.

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