Lindy Guinness

Serena Belinda Rosemary Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, also known as Lindy Guinness, was a British artist, conservationist and businesswoman. She was married to the fifth Marquess from 1964 until his death in 1988. Sheridan was also an art enthusiast and opened a gallery in London. The Dufferins' Holland Park mansion was a popular gathering for London's "aristo-bohemian set" during the 1960s and 1970s. "We used to give endless parties," she told W magazine in 2009. "They had this kind of innocence and openness about them. There was no sort of formality." The marquess, who The Independent described as "flamboyant and basically homosexual", died of an AIDS-related illness in 1988.