Brownell married Michael Pitt-Rivers, a homosexual, in 1958, and had affairs with several British painters, including Lucian Freud, William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore.
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Her godson Tom Gross has written in The Spectator magazine that “although Sonia had no children of her own, she became almost like a second mother to me”.
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Her friend the painter Francis Bacon paid off her outstanding debts and at her funeral Tom Gross read the same passage from Ecclesiastes about the breaking of the golden bowl that she had asked Anthony Powell to read at Orwell's funeral thirty years earlier.
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When she was six, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Roehampton (now Woldingham School), in England.
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