A Foul Perfume
This fashion icon was the illegitimate daughter of an itinerant French street vendor and an impoverished laundry woman in a charity hospital run by nuns. After she gained success, she would make up glamorous and completely untrue accounts of her early life. She was a vicious antisemite who collaborated with high-level Nazis in Paris, where she was romantically involved with a German aristocrat. The Free French wanted to prosecute her after the war, but Churchill may have saved her. There’s speculation he didn’t want Nazi sympathizers in the Royal family exposed - which her trial would have done. So who was this marquee name?