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Alvilde Lees-Milne (néeBridges; 13 August – 18 March ) was a British gardening and landscape expert.

Early life

Alvilde was born on 13 August in London. She was the only child of the Lt.-Gen. Sir (George) Tom Molesworth Bridges, the Governor of South Australia from to , by his wife Janet Florence Menzies,^[1] and was the great-niece of Robert Bridges, the one-time Poet Laureate.^[2]

Personal life

On 9 January , Alvilde married Hon.

Anthony Freskin Charles Hamby Chaplin, who would in become the 3rd Viscount Chaplin.

Obituary: Alvilde Lees-Milne - The Independent

They had one daughter, Oenone Clarissa Chaplin (), who married Michael Charles Deane Luke (b. ), son of Sir Harry Charles LukeKCMG, of Hollingbourne Manor, in ^[1]

While married to Lord Chaplin, she met James Lees-Milne, who became her second husband, during World War II while she was engaged in an affair with the arts patron Princess Winnaretta de Polignac.

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