About Herta Groves
Lived 1909 – 2016 (aged 106–107). Herta Groves was a British and Austrian modiste and fashion designer.
Herta "Georgette" Groves (April 1920 – 27 April 2016) was an Austrian-born British milliner who made hats for Queen Elizabeth II.
Early life Groves grew up in Vienna, the daughter of Jewish parents, Wilhelm and Amelia. Her father died of pneumonia which he caught after being forced at gunpoint to shovel snow from the streets of Vienna, and her mother and younger sister Alice died in a Latvian concentration camp in 1942. Groves was married twice, and lived in St John's Wood.
Groves died on 27 April 2016, aged 96, after being knocked down by a lorry following a concert at London's Wigmore Hall.
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Who was Herta Groves?
British modiste (1909-2016)
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Herta Groves was born in 1909.
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Herta Groves died on 27 April 2016.
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Herta Groves was a modiste and fashion designer.
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Herta Groves was British and Austrian.
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