Hjrdis Niven, 1961-64. Which makes me a French marquise, I suppose., We often joke that we should buy a nice dilapidated castle in France and call ourselves the Marquis and Marchioness. She wanted to be someone in her ownright, and not merely Mrs David Niven. Sir Roger Moore, who was there, recalls: The car door opened and, with her wig slipping and an emptybottle of vodka rolling around her feet, Hjrdis looked up at me and slurred: Here for the press, are you?, Moore, a mild-mannered man, slow to anger, told her: Just get in the f***ing house.. I was astonished as my dad had spurned all such aids. David, who I really loved, was very nice to me and corrected me when my English was wrong. When we share what we know, together we discover more. I draw a veil over that. 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I took a gun and put the barrel in my mouth and, with barely a thought for my children, which was unforgivable, I pulled the trigger. Did Kristina finish grade school, get a GED, go to high school, get a college degree or masters? After all, I worked hard for it.'. 1 She was adopted by James David Graham Niven and Hjrdis Paulina Genberg in 1960. Niven was the chief of the William Morris Agency in Europe. Extreme coldness is the characteristic most people mention about her. Quite a few light scuffs/scratches, or several more-pronounced scratches. She was actually half-French, born in Wales. Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record AbeBooks.com: Pour Toi (9780855030841) by Kristina-niven and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. That shows you are extra special to me. These were the days before the paparazzi, so he wasn't mobbed by fans wherever he went.'. The image of his once strong, powerfully built, handsome father looking so pitifully weak and thin as he inched towards the window to wave goodbye to his son is one which will stay with David Jnr for ever. 'It was absolutely heartbreaking for me to see him like that, so very frail and skinny, and I remember thinking as I drove away: "My God, this could be the last time I ever see him," ' says David, 67. She was loathed and detested by every member of Nivens family, and by all his closefriends. Arent we both lucky? She smiled and hugged me., I feel too, that there is no point in hiding her any more. I think he'll find it very sympathetic and affectionate towards his father. If only Primmie could know that and that she will be waiting for me., To order a copy of David Niven: The Man Behind The Balloon by Michael Munn (JR Books, 17.99) with free UK delivery, please send a cheque or PO made payable to the Daily Express Bookshop to: David Niven Offer, PO Box 200, Falmouth TR11 4WJ, or telephone 0871 988 8367 (calls cost 10p/min from BT landlines) with credit/debit card details or order online at www.expressbookshop.com. Another of the stars close friends, my former Fleet Street colleague, the international showbusiness writer Roderick Mann, who died last year, left behind him a play entitled Chalet soon to be staged in London. 'Hjordis could be very tricky and neurotic,' says David. The comments below have been moderated in advance. You've got to have someone else to worry over. Required fields are marked *. All hell broke loose, remembered her family cook, Elizabeth Duckworth. Wednesday, 18th January 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 'If he wanted to confess something, why would it be to this man? We used to sit by the fire with a night-cap just before bed-time.. At a party in Hollywood at the home of the actor Tyrone Power, she fell 20ft after opening a door which she thought was a cupboard - looking for somewhere to hide during a game of Sardines - but which actually hid stairs leading to a cellar. In October 1951, while pheasant shooting with friends in New England, Hjrdis had been shot in the face, neck and chest by two of Nivens companions. I found myself gazing into a face of such beauty and such sweetness that I just stared blankly back, he wrote. 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She made her breakthrough as an actress in the 1943 film Sjtte . 'I decided to blow my brains out. I get the chance to remember the Share yesterday to connect today & preserve tomorrow, Copyright 1999-2023 AncientFaces, Inc. All Rights Reserved, ADVERTISEMENT Munn says, the tapes of his interview with Niven unfortunately no longer exist as they were 'chewed up' in the machine long ago, but that he transcribed them in full before they were lost. When we were apart during the war, it was all too easy to have sex with other women who wanted to go to bed with a Hollywood movie star. [Awesome]. But he rejected the idea. ' he asked. ', Yet from the start I saw the possibilities and always visualised it as it was going to be. During their autumn 1961 return to Switzerland, the Nivens were visited by Swedish magazine Vecko Revyn. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Kristina Niven - Mammy Blue - Used Vinyl Record 7 - A1450A at the best online prices at eBay! She was ten years his junior and had never seen any of his films, but he was rapidly becoming, by his own admission, quite besotted. I could never call him "Father" - he was always my stepfather - it was a farce.'. During an upbeat Swedish magazine interview in 1961, Hjrdis happy family talk was interrupted by David rushing up from the basement to report that one of the boys had drawn an ugly angry face in lipstick on one of the murals. You could say that when it came to being unfaithful, my father didn't exactly keep his knees together all the time. Niven's beloved first wife Primula Rollo, whom he met when she was working as an air force cipher during World War II, died in a tragic accident when David was just three and Jamie six months old. But at the end of her husband's life, she refused. The new family were photographed enjoying the gardens and swimming pool at Lo Scoglietto during the hot summer of 1964. And as falsehood followed contradiction followed hypocrisy, a nation screamed at Harry's white-gloved TV interviewers: When WILL you call him out? One evening a big star gave a party honoring couples who had been married more than 10 years. It's believed that the accident was caused when Princess Grace, who was driving, had a mild stroke. 'My father was incredibly attractive to other women. It was never a very rigidly enforced secret, and followed Davids desire to keep the boys early lives under the public radar. I can forgive myself by and large but to be unfaithful to the best wife a man ever had was unpardonable.. David and Hjrdis Niven arrive in Rome on 23rd March 1961, to be met by one of the stars of My Two Enemies, an Ethiopian gazelle. Other projects were allowed to slip by, such as Circus, Paris 1900, Jack Be Nimble and Honey for the Bears. She was angry with him, angry at his fame andsuccess. Join Facebook to connect with Kristina Niven and others you may know. Her presence was noted just about in a syndicated news story published six months after her birth: Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fishers nursemaid hired to tend to their three children in Rome for $2000 a month while Liz lenses Cleopatra has quit. I just couldnt get enough when I was a young man, he admitted. Perhaps a lucky escape. The Title is Mammy Blue. Cap Ferrat, summer, 1964 (Not the most flattering picture ever taken, but it fits in with the narrative..!) Several years later, Niven himself admitted to murderous feelings: I came home from filming one night and found [Hjrdis] drunk in the bath, unable to get out. ', Of Munn's new book, he adds: 'My father wrote the definitive books about his own life and I can't really see the need for another book about him.'. There is only one copy of each photo. According to Munn, who says he became a confidant to Hjordis after Niven's death,. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY with every order. Where we share as we remember & make discoveries and connect with others to help answer questions. Ive always told people I damaged it during the war. My relationship with Hjrdis really did change, he said. After trying in vain to blow his brains out an episode he later confessed was unforgiveable since he had two young sons to look after he plunged into compulsive sexual behaviour. Hereinafter cited as The Times. Her diary, had she kept one, would have recorded events such as multiple fractures in askiing accident followed by six months in hospital with awater skiing injury thrown in half-way through, an alleged presidential birthdayquickie with John F Kennedy, being found unconscious after almost asphyxiating herself with car exhaust fumes, hanging off the edge of a mountain pass after a virtual dry run for The Italian Job, almost killing her stepson with Swedish exercises, another leg break, getting bitten by a lion(cub), and a croquet [!] Margaret, a future Deb of the Year who later went on to marry into the aristocracy and became the sexually voracious Duchess of Argyll, was rushed into a London nursing home for a secret termination. a Actress Lilli Palmer (Rex Harrison's wife between 1943-1956: "It was almost impossible. He made a porter feel like aKing.. Fiona Niven 1 . I dont remember anything about how I met her except that it was at a party where I got terribly drunk. He would not tolerate lying.'. To them, Hollywood greats Fred Astaire, Cary Grant and Laurence Olivier were merely 'Uncle Fred', 'Uncle Cary', and 'Uncle Larry'. James was born on June 22 1882, in Dundee. Account & Lists Returns & Orders. The scene was Lo Scoglietto Italian for Little Rock a villa built on a small peninsula jutting spectacularly into the Mediterranean between Beaulieu and St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Cte dAzur. A slated film project which did not come fruition was Shocked, in which David wasto play opposite Sophia Loren as a travel agent who didnt like traveling. Kristina Niven Published by The Medici Society, 1985 ISBN 10: 0855030844 ISBN 13: 9780855030841 Seller: Fireside Bookshop, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom Contact seller Association Member: PBFA Seller Rating: Book First Edition Signed Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good US$ 44.11 Convert currency US$ 28.14 Shipping From United Kingdom to U.S.A. (As a note: Carlos Madrid has looked in to Hjrdis claim, and found nothing. But by August 15, 1973, 95% of American troops had left Vietnam. So if, say, a friend claimed to have had an affair with Princess Margaret, my father might re-tell the story as if it were him. Perhaps the final word on David Niven should not be left to his second wife, or even to the play written by his great friend RoderickMann. In 1960, in the year that Kristina Niven was born, on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Being a care-giverdoesnt fit the perception of Hjrdis recorded by Graham Lord in his Niv biography, which is probably why the episode did not make the cut, despite the author being granted access to Trubshawes interview with Sheridan Morley. But yesterday Munn said he had known Niven both professionally and socially, meeting him whenever he came to the UK from his home in Switzerland, although Munn never met David Jnr or Jamie. Princess Margaret chats to 'The Bishop's Wife' star Loretta Young at the Leicester Square Odeon, November 25 1947, before watching a stage show featuring, among other stars, David Niven, David Niven in a scene from A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and (right) with his wife Mrs Hjordis Niven. Link to family and friends whose lives she impacted. But at the end of her husbands life, she refused to take care of him. I recalled, six or seven years before, having paid a visit to friends who had a villa at Cap Ferrat, not far from Nice. The villa had previously been rented out to the likes of King Leopold of Belgium and Charlie Chaplin. 'But much worse was the way it affected his speech. Then it leaked out. The leak proved to be more of a slow puncture. But our friends dont need to worry, it wont go beyond a joke.. She died of a fractured skull and brain lacerations. 'She'd been a supermodel and a former Miss Sweden, and she found it very hard not being the centre of attention. According to Munn's book, Niven told him that her death, combined with the theft from their home of her most treasured possessions, drove him to attempt suicide. August 1964 In 1965 David Niven began in earnest to introduce his new family to the world: "It is the best thing I've ever done. He and Primmie were married nine months later. Close friend: Roger Moore described Niven's wife as showing him nothing but disdain. David is more settled now than he has ever been.. David Jr later remembered: I first met Grace in the early fifties when she used to visit my father in Pacific Palisades.. He's trying to destroy Charles, Camilla and William over leaks and briefings when I KNOW those spinning for him and Meghan did just the same, What royal feud? They will be brought up as our children and share in everything like the boys. 'Once, I changed the grades on one of my school reports, not realising that the ink I used was not the same as that on the report. His conquests included Princess Marina, widow of the Duke of Kent, and according to Hjrdis Princess Margaret, while for her part, she had a quickie with US President John Kennedy and caught a dose of chlamydia from him. 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However, Trubshawes disappointment at finding his friendship with David had cooled since the 1940s was recorded, and Hjrdis may well have begun to view him as a kindred soul. 1 Citations [ S203] Announcements, The Times, London, U.K., 30 July 1983. She may have believed it, but it doesnt look like its true. Kristina was rushed to hospital in Lausanne, where she remained in a coma for days. And now the great day had finally arrived and I was here with David, cuddling a sturdy little blue-eyed, fair-haired creature whom we had named Kristina., I looked into the sparkling blue eyes in the tiny oval face and thought: Shes mine. Her 17 year old daughter, Stephanie, was also in the car and suffered serious injuries but recovered. Add Kristina's family friends, and her friends from childhood through adulthood. Munn had first met Niven in 1970 - then aged 60 - when he was an 18-yearold trainee junior film publicist and interviewed him seven times between then and his death in 1983. She and Hjrdis always got along very well together.. Have one to sell? Actress Alexandra Bastedo, close to Mann for many years, is convinced that Niven discussed with certain friends ways and means of getting rid of Hjordis. He never fully recovered from Primmies death and now found himself alone with two young sons to raise. The boys real father was Thomas Platt, a would-be Conservative MP. According to Niven, when USSR premier Nikita Khrushchev and his family visited Hollywood in September of 1959, they were treated to the filming of a dance scene for the upcoming Shirley MacLaine. James David Graham Niven was born on March 1, 1910, in a mansion block of flats just around the corner from Buckingham Palace. (Visiting celebrity party-organiser Elsa Maxwell referred to it in July 1961 as Villa Folies). But now that we were together, purely by chance, he seemed almost embarrassed.. In 1940 he married Primmie, the granddaughter of a marquess, after a two-week courtship. 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