Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

Dale Elizabeth Tryon, Baroness Tryon (née Harper; 3 January 1948 – 15 November 1997) was a socialite and a businesswoman in the international fashion world. She created the fashion label "Kanga" and the couture line "The Dale Tryon Collection". "Kanga" also came to be her own nickname. Tryon gave her support to a number of charities including SANE, the mental health charity of which she was the chairwoman. She was a close friend of the Prince of Wales (later King Charles III). within two weeks of arriving in England she had met Anthony Tryon (later 3rd Baron Tryon), who was a member of Prince Charles's inner circle. Dale and Anthony married in 1973 in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace,

Businesses Tryon started her career in the late 1960s as a reporter for The Australian Women's Weekly. In 1969 she moved to the UK and worked in the London office of that magazine. In 1982 she briefly worked in the business of American-born Hong Kong designer Diane Fraise as a fashion agent. In 1983, Dale started a fashion business called Kanga, located in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge. Having persuaded Diana, Princess of Wales to wear a Kanga dress to the Live Aid concert, it became a successful international business. Dale lived in Lord Tryon's family home, the 18th-century Manor House at Great Durnford, near Salisbury. From the early 1980s her clothes were sold in shops in England, America, Australia, France and Spain, and her own boutique in Knightsbridge was later joined by branches in Salisbury, Hong Kong, and Dublin. Both "Kanga" and her couture line named "The Dale Tryon Collection" were successful.

Health Dale had Perthes disease as a child, spina bifida since childhood and was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1993. fractured her skull, broke her back and was paralysed.

Divorce Living with recurring depression, and after being told by her husband that he wanted a divorce, she was detained on 17 June 1997 under the Mental Health Act 1983 for 28 days, after leaving the Black Horse Inn in Great Durnford. After discharge from the spinal injuries unit at Salisbury District Hospital, she returned home. The decree nisi was announced on 1 September, after which she renounced her title and moved into The Ritz hotel, where she intended to throw a party for her 50th birthday. She was buried four days later in England, and in her will left her £1.3 million estate to her children.