Katie was born in Florence, Italy, the daughter of an Italian Marquis and a Yorkshire born mother and came to England when 19
and married Viscount Boyle when 20. She was buying hats when she met Beverly Nicholls, who was writing a story on buying hats. He asked her to model for him and she started her career. She lived down the fact that she was a Marchesa and a lady and became accepted for herself and never advertises anything she doesn't use herself. She married a second time on August 26 1955 to Lloyds underwriter Greville Bayliss who was born in 1920 and died February1976 of a massive coronary, She then married Peter Saunders in 1980, he died February 6th 2006
