A ''Classic" Audrey image
The Beginning:
Audrey Kathleen Ruston (changed to Hepburn)was born on the 4 May 1929 in Ixelles, Belgium to Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston and his segundo wife Ella van Heemstra, who was the the former Baroness Ella (1900-1984), a Dutch aristocrat. Although born in Belgium, Hepburn had British citizenship and attended school in England as a child. In 1935, Hepburn's parents divorced and her father, a Nazi sympathiser, left the family.
Hepburn later referred to her father leaving as 'the most traumatic moment of her life.'
In 1939, her mother moved her and her two half-brothers to their grandfather's...
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