Fleur Cowles, despite past thoughts of assassination, remains an advocate of the purest bond. NO-ONE among her battalion of powerful friends would consider Fleur Cowles a violent person. There is ...

Every time Fleur Fenton Cowles tried to tell her publisher-husband, Gardner Cowles, about the kind of monthly class magazine she would like to start, she found herself repeating: “It’s got to ...

Fleur Cowles, who has died aged – probably – 101, was a formidably creative American journalist and socialite who turned her back on humble origins to make her life's business networking with ...

Fleur wrote of Cowles: "I often had to be away and I suddenly learned of his relationship with another woman, which I refused to countenance." The year 1955 brought her third divorce but also her ...