»Myrtle Johnson was born 24 April 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Edward Johnson and his wife Augusta Ackerbery. The sitter adopted the stage name Myrtle Thoreau as a cast member of the Ziegfeld Follies 1923-25. At the end of the 1924 theatrical season she visited Deauville, France, where she met Claude Moss Leigh (1888-1964), a widower and wealthy London estate agent. They married 11 February 1925 in Marylebone Registry Office.«
Claude Moss Leigh is pictured with his wife and the Marchioness of Carisbrooke at the 'Hundred Hosts' Ball at the Park Lane Hotel, London in 1932.
Leigh was the founder of the Metropolitan Housing Corporation (which would evolve into the MEPC, one of the United Kingdom's largest property companies) and at the time of the photo the marchioness' husband Alexander of Battenberg, Marquess of Carisbrooke, brother of Queen Ena of Spain, was working for him.
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