Babe Plunket Greene

Babe Plunket Greene (27 October 1907[1] – 4 November 1987), birth registered as Enid Margot Bendir,[2][3] was one of the 1920s English socialites known as the "Bright Young Things".

[5] At the time of Babe's birth, her mother was married to Richard Murray McGusty, of a family of Dublin solicitors, who worked in Canada for the government.

[5] Babe's biological father was Arthur Bendir, with whom her mother had an affair starting in 1906, and eventually married in 1921, having divorced McGusty in 1908[1] following the child's birth.

Arthur Bendir was the Chairman of Ladbrokes, which he founded in 1902, and immensely rich, although some, including Evelyn Waugh, made demeaning references to his "common" origins.

[6][7] She played a leading role in the hedonistic activities of the Bright Young Things, usually in the company of her friends Sylvia Ashley and Elizabeth Ponsonby (the latter also a cousin by marriage).