Lady Jeanne Louise Campbell

1928 - 2007  (78 years)

• Name	Jeanne Louise Campbell
  Prefix	Lady
  Birth	10 Dec 1928	Kingston, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Jun 2007	Greenwich Village, New York, NY. USA   [1]
  Person ID	I10391	OrwinMillar
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll,   b. 18 Jun 1903, Paris, France d. 7 Apr 1973, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Hon Janet Gladys Aitken,   b. 9 Jul 1908, Montreal, Quebec, Canada d. 18 Nov 1988, Ewhurst, Surrey. England (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1927	Chelsea, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Family ID	F3477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Norman Kingsley Mailer,   b. 31 Jan 1923, Long, Branch, New Jersey, USA d. 11 Nov 2007, New York, New York, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	1962  [1]
  Divorce	1963	Mexico   [1]
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F4015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F4017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  When Jeanne was 2 her mother, Janet, ran away from Jeanne's father and dumped Jeanne onto her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook brought her up for the next 9 years, when Jeanne was sent to boarding schools. Wanting to become an actress she joined the "Old Vic". After contracting pneumonia she decided that draughty stages and cold "digs" were not for her. She joined the family business as a newspaper reporter and travelled the world with her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook. Eventually she met the author Norman Mailer. Jeffrey Meyers, in the National Review, 26 Jul 1985, says, she was the mistress of Henry Luce the founder of "Time-Life". And this is what attracted Norman Mailer to her. Within a few months Jean was pregnant with Kate. Norman was taken to meet Beaverbrook in the south of France who liked him and so gave his aproval so Jean and Norman married in 1962. The marriage was a stormy one and was not destined to last. James Humes, the author, on being interviewed, by Brian Lamb, about his book "Ghostwriter to 5 Presidents" gives the following story; Lamb. "And then there is another story about a relative of Lord Beaverbrook.Humes. "Yes. Well, there was Lady Jean Campbell who was a kind of a - she was the grandaughter of Beaverbrook. and I was going out in - 1964 convention." Lamb. "San Francisco?" Humes. "Wa - Yea. And I was for Scranton. And I was a Legislator in the Legislature and Scranton was the Governor. I see Jacob Javits, and next to it an English voice. And so I started talking. We established friends, and she said 'Oh, my' - - she had this - - her grandfather had given her this job, she's no journalist, and what should she do? I gave her a headline. I take her to lunch at Ernie's. Now I do not know that she's married..... We just go for lunch. And we'd just ordered our first course of shrimp. Suddenly she says, 'It's my husband! He'll kill you! He'll kill you! So we went out through the kitchen, out the back door, and I never did pay for the shrimp. I mean it was Norman Mailer and I think he did actually stab some one in jealousy a couple of years earlier. She's quite a character - is quite a charcter. I guess - I mean, I think she's now in an Anglican convent. But there are rumours of her - strong rumours that she's the only person in the world who knew, biblically speaking, in one year, Khrushev, Kennedy, and Castro." After Jeanne left Norman she fled to her best friend, a southern aristocrat, John Cram, with a plantation in North Carolina. Norman and Jeanne were divorced in 1963. Between 1978 and 1988 Jeanne was "High Commissioner for the Clan Campbell Society of North America". Her marriage, to John Cram, does not seem to have been very successful either. In 1995 Jeanne said, in a newspaper article, "I think I am still married. I haven't seen him for quite some time but I have had no notification." Jeanne resided in New York. She converted from the Church of England and became a Roman Catholic. Working as a volunteer she worked for Mother Teresa's Hospice for Aids patients, in New York. Between 1974 and 1988 Jeanne was "High Commissioner for the Clan Campbell Society of North America".

  
  

• Sources

  [S77] Terry Stewart (Reliability: 3).