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Additional Sources: Alamy: 6 below left/Ivan Vdovin. AP/Press Association Images: 16/Thanassis Stavrakis. Courtesy of the Benaki Museum – Ghika Gallery, Photographic Archive, Athens: 7 below. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images: 13 below. Joan Leigh Fermor: 12 below. Bridget Flemming: 15 below. Courtesy of Dagmar Ingrid Fischer: 14 below. Milton Gendel, Fondazione Primoli, Rome: 9, 12 above. Courtesy of the Estate of Enrica Soma Huston: 11 below. The Murray Collection: 6 above/watercolour by Peter Todd Mitchell, 6 below right. Moviestore Collection/REX/Shutterstock: 10 below. Courtesy of Lyndall Passerini-Hopkinson (photograph by Josephine Powell):11 above.
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