One person who raised a glass last night to our future king — born
like his father in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital — is Blanche
Blackwell, 100, a member of the Lindo family. The Lindos were
benefactors of the private hospital when it was founded in 1845.
Born Blanche Lindo in December 1912 in Costa Rica, where the family
traded in bananas, she is the mother of Bob Marley’s multi-millionaire
record producer Chris Blackwell, owner of Island Records. She lives in
Knightsbridge.
Blanche was a friend of Ian Fleming at Goldeneye in
Jamaica, a circle which included Princess Margaret, Sir Noël Coward and
Errol Flynn.
Originally Sephardic Jews from Portugal, the
Lindos moved to Spain, Venice, Amsterdam and Bordeaux before settling
in Jamaica in 1765 and becoming involved in sugar plantations.
Perhaps a glass of rum would wet the royal baby’s head?
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