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Socialite and volunteer worker. Ella, Baronness van Heemstra, DStJ (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984) was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn. After her marriage to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, she became a British citizen.
3 de abr. de 2019 · Audrey Hepburn's mother, Dutch Baroness Ella van Heemstra, met Hitler in 1935 and had a Nazi officer as a boyfriend. She later joined the Dutch Resistance and hid a British paratrooper during World War II.
Hepburn's mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (12 June 1900 – 26 August 1984), was a Dutch noblewoman. Ella was the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra , who served as mayor of Arnhem from 1910 to 1920 and as governor of Dutch Guiana from 1921 to 1928, and Baroness Elbrig Willemine Henriette van Asbeck (1873–1939), a ...
Baroness Ella Van Heemstra was an actress and the mother of Audrey Hepburn. She was born in 1900 in the Netherlands and died in 1984 in Switzerland.
12 de jun. de 2019 · Her Dutch mother, the Baroness Ella van Heemstra, met Hitler in the 1930s and wrote admiringly about him in British fascist publications — but changed her mind during the brutal Nazi occupation...
3 de may. de 2019 · The first documented involvement of Audrey’s family, the van Heemstras, with the zwarte avonden took place on April 23, 1944, when at least one van Heemstra, and likely both Audrey and her...
Mini Bio. Baroness Ella Van Heemstra was born on June 12, 1900 in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands. She was an actress. She was married to Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and Hendrik Quarles van Ufford. She died on August 26, 1984 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland. Family. Spouses. Joseph Hepburn-Ruston (September 24, 1926 - June 24, 1939) (divorced, 1 child)
