Georgina Howell

Early life Howell was born in Kimberley, South Africa on 8 May 1942. Following several unsatisfactory convent schools (Howell was, in fact, raised as a Protestant), she attended Miss Ironside’s School, a "dame" school in Kensington (run by the great-aunt of journalist Virginia Ironside). When she was aged 14, her father died from a heart attack following a plane accident.

Career Persuaded by her mother, Howell entered Vogues Young Talent contest in 1960. She won, ensuing she gained a job at Condé Nast (Vogues parent company), assisting Peter Coats, garden editor of House and Garden. After Tina Brown became the editor of Tatler in 1979, she appointed Howell as her deputy. In 2015 the book was turned to a film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicole Kidman.

Private life In 1963, Howell married Michael Buhler, an artist. She divorced her husband in 1978 gaining custody of their son, Tom (born 1967). He has worked for the marketing department of Yale University Press.

In 1990, she married Christopher Bailey, a former bursar of the Royal Agricultural College, whom she met while researching a piece on the college for The Sunday Times. The couple bought a 1,000 year old manor in Brittany, near St. Malo, which they restored. Howell died in Brittany at the age of 73, on 21 January 2016, after suffering from cancer for four years.