Grace Marguerite Hay DrummondHay, Lady Hay DrummondHay was a British journalist who was the first woman to travel around the world by air, in a Zeppelin. Although she was not an aviator herself at first, she certainly contributed to its glamour and the general knowledge about her aerial adventures by writing articles about it in mainstream US newspapers in the late1920s and early1930s.
Grace Lethbridge was the eldest daughter of Sidney Thomas Lethbridge and his wife Grace Emily . She was married in 1920 to Sir Robert Hay DrummondHay at the age of 25, her husband being nearly fifty years older. Sir Robert was born in Tangier, Morocco and had been the British consulgeneral for years in Beirut, Lebanon. Sir Robert was previously married to Euphemia Katrina Willis Flemming. Four children were produced in this marriage, Arnold Robert, Edward William, Cecil and Florence Caroline. The children were all significantly older than their new stepmother, Florence Caroline beingyears older. After six years of marriage, Sir Robert died. Lady DrummondHay then wasyears old. As a young aristocratic widow she lived in her apartment in London.
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