Woman's Day

‘I was giving women advice... but didn’t take any of it!’

It’s hard to believe the relaxed and quietly spoken voice on the other end of the line belongs to none other than the magazine legend who could – and did – spark terror in so many.

“They used to call me the dragon lady,” laughs Nene King, now 78, as she opens up to Woman’s Day about her extraordinary life and how she lost it all after the death of her beloved husband Patrick Bowring.

Nene was left to weather a storm of frenzied speculation when the man she called her soulmate disappeared, presumed dead after being taken by a shark

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