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Fiona Frances Elaine CAMPBELL-WALTER

Female 1932 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name Fiona Frances Elaine CAMPBELL-WALTER 
    Birth 25 Jun 1932  Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    _UID 9AC01192BC604FC6B19C56ABBC7B99277315 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Notes 
    • From thepeerage.com: Fiona "was a photographer and fashion model. She and Alexander Onassis were associated." There is more on this in Fiona's Wikipedia entry, which also has details of her career:
      "Campbell-Walter's mother encouraged her to model and, as a teenager, she was photographed by Henry Clarke. She joined the Lucie Clayton Charm Academy, a London-based modelling agency and finishing school. She signed as a model and was a favorite of the photographer Cecil Beaton. In the 1950s she was earning up to £ 2,000 a day. In January 1953 she was featured on the cover of Life Magazine and was featured in Vogue. She was also photographed by John French, Elsbeth Juda, Norman Parkinson, and David Bailey and modelled for Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, and Elsa Schiaparelli."
      and her personal life:
      "On 17 September 1956 she married Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva at Castagnola, a Swiss village on the coast of Lake Lugano. She was the third wife of Thyssen-Bornemisza, a Dutch-born German-Swiss heir and art collector who was a member of the Hungarian nobility. Upon her marriage, she became a baroness, retired from modelling and moved to the Villa Favorita on Lake Lugano. She and her husband had two children:

      Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 7 June 1958); married Archduke Karl von Habsburg
      Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 15 June 1963)

      She divorced Thyssen-Bornemisza on 20 January 1965 and moved to London with her children. In 1969 she received media attention for her affair with Greek shipping heir Alexander Onassis, the only son of Aristotle Onassis. Onassis had invited Campbell-Walter, 16 years his senior and a friend of his mother, Athina Mary "Tina" Livanos, to a dinner party."
    Person ID I608  Ipswich, Suffolk
    Last Modified 31 Oct 2026 

    Father Rear-Admiral Keith Mcneil CAMPBELL-WALTER, CB,   b. 31 Aug 1904, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1976, Hampstead RD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Frances Henriette CAMPBELL,   b. 30 Nov 1904, Semarang, Java, Indonesia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1997, Kilbrandon and Kilchattan RD, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Marriage 16 Dec 1930  London Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F215  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hans Heinrich Baron von THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA de Kaszon et Imperfalva,   b. 13 Apr 1921   d. 27 Apr 2002, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 17 Sep 1956  Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Marital status Divorced 
    Children 
     1. Franziska Anne Dolores Baronin von THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
     2. Lorne Johannes Baron von THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA de Kaszon et Imperfalva
    Family ID F216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Oct 2026 

  • Photos
    Fiona (née Campbell-Walter), Baroness Thyssen; with her mother Frances Henriette Campbell-Walter (née Campbell)
    Fiona (née Campbell-Walter), Baroness Thyssen; with her mother Frances Henriette Campbell-Walter (née Campbell)
    by Bassano Ltd
    half-plate negative, 18 May 1949
    Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] http://thepeerage.com, May 2011 and October 2026.

    2. [S3] BMD index, Q4 1930 St Geo. Hanover Sq. 1a/1076. (Reliability: 3).