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2 unusual facts about Lady Dorothy Mills


Lady Dorothy Mills

Lady Dorothy married Captain Arthur F. H. Mills of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry after he was wounded in the First World War in 1916, being presented at the ceremony with a wedding ring made from a bullet that had been surgically removed from his ankle after he was wounded in combat at La Bassée, France.

She was born in Kensington, London, United Kingdom, the daughter of Robert Horace "Robin" Walpole, the 5th and final Earl of Orford, and Countess Louise Melissa Corbin of the United States.



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