Francis Alexander Shields
Francis Alexander Shields (
May 16 ,1941 -April 27 ,2003 ) was an American businessman, an executive atRevlon inNew York , and best known as the father of the actressBrooke Shields .He was born in
New York City , the eldest son ofFrancis Xavier Shields , a top-ranking American tennis player and of the ItalianPrincess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi . Through his mother he is related to several Italian princely families (most notablyBorgia ,Medici ,d'Este , di Savoia). His uncle, for example, wasDon Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi , the husband of the Spanish Infanta Beatriz de Borbón yBattenberg , so that he and KingJuan Carlos of Spain share cousins in theTorlonia -de Borbón family.He attended the
Buckley School inManhattan and St. Paul's School inConcord, New Hampshire , before graduating from theUniversity of Pennsylvania , where he captained the crew that rowed in theHenley Royal Regatta in 1962. An avid sportsman, Shields never lost his love of rowing and founded the ( [http://www.power10.org/] ) Power Ten New York, an organization dedicated to the sport, in 1980.After starting his career on Wall Street, he moved to
Palm Beach, Florida in 1988, forming a real-estate company. An avid hunter and fisherman, the 6-foot-5 inch Shields spent much of his free time at the camp he owned in rural west Florida, Canoe Creek.He married first in 1964 (and later divorced) the
California n Maria Theresia Schmon (or Schmonn), who is better known as Brooke Shields' mother/manager,Teri Shields . After their divorce, he married, in 1970, Diana "Didi" Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss, who is the son ofHugh D. Auchincloss and half-brother ofGore Vidal and a stepbrother ofJacqueline Kennedy Onassis . He had three daughters by his second marriage: Marina, Olimpia, and Christina Shields.He died in
Palm Beach, Florida ofprostate cancer at the age of 61.External links
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/torlonia.html Torlonia genealogy]
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