Doris Castlerosse

Doris Browne, Viscountess Castlerosse ( Delevingne; 25 September 1900 – 12 December 1942) was an English courtesan and the first wife of Valentine Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare.

Family She was born Jessie Doris Delevingne in Beckenham. She had ‘lowly origins and place’: She lied that she was descended from a noble Flemish family.

Through her brother Edward Dudley Delevingne, Doris was the grandaunt of models Poppy Delevingne and Cara Delevingne.

Life before marriage Doris sold second-hand gowns to actresses.

Marriage She met Valentine Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, when she was aged 28 years. Churchill's former private secretary, Jock Colville, claimed in a 1985 interview with Correlli Barnett that Doris and the future Prime Minister had a four year affair from 1933: but the Churchill scholar Andrew Roberts noted Colville did not become Churchill's private secretary until 1940 and that the allegations were "at best second-hand information". Roberts stated that "Lady Castlerosse was still legally married to Valentine Castlerosse at the time, the most waspish gossip columnist of the 1930s and the very last person an adulterer would have chosen to cuckold".

The viscount and viscountess were childless and divorced in 1938.