WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AUDREY HEPBURN AND KAISER WILHELM II?

Beautiful Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of the British banker Joseph Anthony Hepburn-Ruston and the Dutch aristocrat Ella, Baroness van Heemstra (Audrey was raised near Brussels). Grandmother de Beaufort and her husband Willem, Baron van Heemstra owned House Doorn in Doorn, the Netherlands, which was bought by German Emperor Wilhelm II when in exile in the Netherlands.
Small world.


I write this bit of royal trivia, because I just read that Mel Ferrer has died. And it got me thinking, since he was married to Audrey, who was a baroness in her own right. Ferrer and Audrey spent part of their Honeymoon in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and of course Arnhem where Audrey spent the war years. Her experiences of malnutrition there and the food given after the war made such an impression that she became a UN amassador.