Cherry Hambro

Cherry Hambro, Baroness Hambro (4 December 1933 – 27 March 2017), born Cherry Felicity Huggins, was a British journalist who was associated with the fashion scene in 1960s swinging London when she worked for Vogue, Queen magazine and as the first fashion editor of the Saturday colour magazine of The Daily Telegraph.

[1] Noël Coward visited while the family were at King's House, Jamaica, and wrote a verse for Cherry:[2] Huggins learned to fly at the Fairoaks Aero Club near Woking, Surrey, making her first solo flight in 1955.

[2] Huggins had a variety of jobs in her early life that included fashion model, television announcer and stage manager.

[2] A job on the BBC ended after she was unsuccessfully asked to fill in live airtime by singing "Frankie and Johnny".

"[1] She knew key photographers in 1960s "swinging London" such as David Bailey, Helmut Newton, and Norman Parkinson, and arranged shoots in exotic locations including Greenland and Outer Mongolia.

[1] When she photographed Salvador Dalí's muse Amanda Lear on the seashore at Cadaqués wearing Balenciaga, the artist decided to pour petrol on the sea and set light to it.