The Independent - London, April 1st, 1998
BETSEY WHITNEY was among the last of a uniquely American breed of grandes dames, society wives who were more than mere socialites, deriving position and prestige from the marriages they made, but later achieving a status and influence of their own. Twice married, into two of the most famous families in the land, Betsey Whitney was in this sense doubly blessed.
Her life evokes that vanished American establishment of earlier this century, built on great fortunes and old Anglo blood, European by taste and Atlanticist in politics. Born Betsey Cushing to a prominent surgeon in Baltimore, she was t...
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