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'Holly's never dealt with anger like this': TV star and Phillip Schofield shared 'emotional phone call over reaction to queue-gate' There was, however, one more scandal to hit the family. He was the author of the book Breeding Better Cows. They moved to Somerset, where Wheaton-Smith worked as a farmer and geneticist. Mrs Augur was just three years old.ĭespite their troubles, Tatiana was a debutante and married Craig Wheaton-Smith, grandson of the Conservative MP Sir Ernest Craig. Selfridge died in penury in 1947, at the age of 90. ‘She didn’t want to be recognised, so she took the name Mrs Rose Lee.’ ‘My grandmother once turned the bailiffs away and she had to go and work in the finance department at Selfridges. ‘He didn’t have any money,’ Mrs Augur recalls. When he ran into money troubles he moved to a flat in Putney, South-West London, with Serge, Rosalie and Mrs Augur’s mother, Tatiana. Selfridge even installed a soda fountain in the store for his eldest daughter.Įventually, Selfridge’s spending spiralled out of control as the Great Depression hit his profits, and he was ousted from the board in 1941. Rosalie’s husband Serge tried – and failed – to become the first man to fly across the English Channel after the Daily Mail offered a £1,000 prize in 1908.Īfter their marriage, the couple lived with Selfridge in London’s Portman Square while Serge started a short-lived aviation company that only ever made one machine – a two-seat utility biplane that was illustrated in the 1919 edition of Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft.ĭespite his lack of success, the family enjoyed a wonderful sailing trip to Deauville in France on Selfridge’s steam yacht, Conqueror, as well as playing tennis on the roof of the department store and sitting in the front row at show premieres. Mrs Augur with the wedding dress that was handed down to her from grandmother Rosalie Wiazemsky Last Sunday, Mrs Augur watched a portrayal of her own grandmother Rosalie – Selfridge’s daughter (played by Kara Tointon) – getting married in style to a Russian emigre, the rakish aviation pioneer Prince Serge de Bolotoff. ‘And I was disappointed that Jeremy Piven has a beard – my great-grandfather never wore one.’ 'Then he discovered that one of them was taking a lot of drugs and he severed the relationship. He had a good time with the ladies, particularly the Dolly sisters, identical twin dancers who helped him spend his money. 'He did not have affairs when his wife was alive, though he went slightly bananas after she died in the flu pandemic in 1918. ‘I was particularly annoyed by the portrayal of my great-grandfather. ‘Mr Selfridge is a story which is entertaining for the masses, but it is not necessarily fact,’ she says with withering precision.
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Mrs Augur has never spoken in public about the series and says she watches the show under sufferance.īut when she was tracked down by The Mail on Sunday she was keen to set the record straight on a couple of key points: Harry Gordon Selfridge was not unfaithful, she insists – and he didn’t even have a beard. Cleone Augur (pictured) is the great-granddaughter of Harry Selfridge and says his story is even stranger than the fiction shown on the hit ITV showįans of the ITV series Mr Selfridge probably think they know everything about the colourful American tycoon – from his trim, dark beard to his compulsive womanising and betrayal of his long-suffering wife.īut the truth about Harry Gordon Selfridge is very much stranger than that told in the hit show, according to one surviving member of his family.Ĭleone Augur, the great-granddaughter of the man who revolutionised British shopping, says the real story of Mr Selfridge and his family includes Russian assassins, showgirls, drug scandals, a slide into poverty – and a bizarre tale of smuggled bull semen.