Sheila
Sheila, King George VI’s Married Girlfriend Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm was born on September 9, 1895, in Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia. She came from a wealthy family of Scottish descent. In 1914, Sheila travelled to England with her mother, and ended up not returning to Australia because of the War which started later that year. She and her mother did however manage to make a trip to Cairo, Egypt. It was during this time that she met her first husband, Francis Erskine, Lord Loughborough. They married in late 1915. Prince Albert, or “Bertie” to family and friends, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was later King George VI from 1936 to 1952 and is the father the late Queen Elizabeth II. At the end of 1918, around the close of the First World War, Sheila and Bertie met. Sheila was the best friend of Freda Dudley Ward, the also married mistress of Bertie’s elder brother David, the Prince of Wales. The two couple’s called themselves "The Four Do’s...