SECRET ENGAGEMENT
WIDOW OF MILLIONAIRE TO MARRY CAPTAIN. LONDON, May 2. Mrs Audrey Gretchen Coats, popular London hostess, hunting woman, and widow of Major Jack Coats, millionaire, is to marry Captain Donald Haldeman at a London registry office. Captain Haldeman was the fourth husband of Lady Idina Haldeman, sister of Earl De La Warr. His marriage was dissolved in February. Not even the closest friends of Mrs Coats and Captain Haldeman, who is. 40 years of age, knew of their engagement. Yesterday Captain Haldeman, an Old Etonian who served with the 19th Hussars in the war, lunched with Mrs Coats, her 12-year-old daughter, and her secretary in her Knightsbridge flat. Surrounded by priceless Italian and Spanish antique furniture which once stood in the salons of Major Jack .Coats' £100,090 flat in Park Lane, they discussed arrangements for the wedding and for a long honeymoon on the Continent and, possibly, in America. Mrs Coats’ first husband, Major Jack Coats, inherited £2,000,000, money made by the famous Paisley cotton family. He died in London in 1932, aged 40, leaving to his wife and family personal estate valued at £726,653. His son, Mr Vernon Coats, is now at Oxford. Gambling was Major Coats’ passion. In the casinos he chanced thousands on the turn of a ball or the twist of a card. At Juan les Pins, on the Riviera, in 1930, he lost £lOO,OOO in one evening’s amusement. Later, at the same casino, he took over the bank for a few days—and lost £BO,OOO. Captain and Lady Idina Haldeman were married at Shoreham register office in 1930. The first of Lady Idina’s husbands was Captain Euan Wallace. In 1919 she married Captain Charles Gordon, and in 1923 the Earl of Erroll. Each of her marriages was dissolved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 4
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294SECRET ENGAGEMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 4
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