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Beatrice Fairbank Cayzer
Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer comes from an illustrious family. Her two ancestors who came to Upper Virginia on the Mayflower in 1620 helped found their community. Her mother's uncle was US Vice Presid...view moreBeatrice Fairbanks Cayzer comes from an illustrious family. Her two ancestors who came to Upper Virginia on the Mayflower in 1620 helped found their community. Her mother's uncle was US Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks. Her father was a US Ambassador at large who negotiated the Peace Treaty of the Peruvian Ecuadorian war. She graduated from Barnard College, and shortly after wed the grandson of a President of Colombia, Alfred Holguin. Her second husband was British cavalry officer Major H. Stanley Cayzer, grandson of Sir Charles Cayzer who founded five shipping companies that eventually had 123 ships under one flag. His uncle Admiral Lord Jellicoe served as First Sea Lord, and later Governor General of New Zealand. Major Cayzer was a Director of the family firm British & Commonwealth, that has become Caledonia Investments. As a sportsman Stanley Cayzer won the Wokingham race at Royal Ascot and took the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood. He owned with Beatrice the 14,000 acres Cabrach estate in Aberdeenshire and Westcote Manor in Warwickshire, he was MFH of the Warwickshire Hunt. Beatrice founded the Cayzer Museum for Children, and then turned to LITERARY CAREER.. In Oxfordshire she wrote THE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES OF WALES. In Guernsey she wrote THE ROYAL WORLD OF ANIMALS. Returning to the USA she wrote eleven novels about British racehorse trainer Rick Harrow, winning the Book Of The Year Award from the International Horseracing Writers Society. in 1988 she authored DIANE, a biography of Princess de Polignac. In 2016 she married environmentalist William Richards Il, and settled in Palm Beach.
She had a sell out with THE SECRET DIARY OF MRS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, in 2017 she had very favorable reviews for TO SAVE A CHILD, and in 2018 had another sell out with NEW TALES OF PALM BEACH.In 2019 her KENNEDYS IN LOVE was turned into a film..view less