Barefaced Lies and the Vitriol of the Queen of Cosmetics ; As the Founder of the Estee Lauder Empire Dies
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PICTURE the scene. It is a sweltering April day in 1966 and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are sitting in their air conditioned limousine at the tiny station of West Palm Beach, Florida.
Seconds after their arrival, another car pulls up alongside them. Out steps a perfectly made-up woman in a suit. She approaches the Windsors' car and, glancing inside, affects casual surprise. 'Oh, are you taking the train also?' she enquires.See the full content of this document
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Barefaced Lies and the Vitriol of the Queen of Cosmetics ; As the Founder of the Estee Lauder Empire Dies
The smartly-dressed woman is Estee Lauder, founder of the cosmetics empire, and over the course of the two-day train journey to New York she will cement a relationship with the Windsors that will last a lifetime.
According to her biographer Lee Israel, Lauder's 'surprise' meeting with the Windsors had been planned in meticulous detail, using an army of contacts t...See the full content of this document
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