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Susan Mary ("Shoe") Guinness-Taylor, mistress of Lord Moyne

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Michael Rhodes

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Jul 22, 2003, 9:57:28 PM7/22/03

Susan Mary "Shoe" Guinness-Taylor, who died 17 July, 2003, was the
"hippy" mistress of the 3rd Lord Moyne (aka Jonathan Guinness), and
mother of three of the peer's children, Diana, Aster amd Tom.

"Shoe", a butcher's daughter, was christened Susan Mary Taylor. Moyne
met her in Spain in 1978, she had left England to see the world
inspired, curiously, by "The Sound of Music". What Shoe did next was
not Rodgers amd Hammerstein. She rode a hermaphrodite circus elephant
in Lebanon, worked topless as the "strongest woman in the world", did
time in Holloway Prison for drugs and suffered for a time from
bulimia.

In 1980 she became pregnant with Moyne's child. She later lived in
Cornwall, and Lord Moyne pays for the rent and for the upkeep of their
three children.

When asked in a Daily Telegraph interview in 1997 whether he would
ever marry his mistress, the twice-wed Lord Moyne said: "I don't know
what will happen in the long term. Shoe is just there and that's
that."

"My wife is accustomed to the situation. I don't think infidelity is
cruel."

The committal takes place at Rodmarton Village Church, on Thursday 24
July, 2003.

Michael Rhodes

Hyfler/Rosner

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Jul 22, 2003, 10:02:42 PM7/22/03

"Michael Rhodes" <mig73alle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Susan Mary "Shoe" Guinness-Taylor, who died 17 July, 2003, was the
> "hippy" mistress of the 3rd Lord Moyne (aka Jonathan Guinness), and
> mother of three of the peer's children, Diana, Aster amd Tom.

Any insight into the nickname?