Sandra Seagram
{{short description|Canadian socialite}}
Sandra Seagram Annovazzi is a Canadian socialite from the Seagram family.
Biography
Seagram was born into a wealthy Canadian distilling family. Her father, Philip Frowde Seagram, was a captain in the 48th Highlanders of Canada and, when he was killed on 8 March 1941, became the first officer of that regiment to be killed in action in World War II.{{cite web |title=Captain SEAGRAM, PHILIP FROWDE |url=https://museum.48thhighlanders.ca/soldier/captain-seagram-philip-frowde/ |website=48th Highlanders of Canada Museum |access-date=20 September 2024}}{{cite web |title=Message from the Honorary Colonel; |url=https://48thhighlanders.ca/message-from-the-honorary-colonel-4/ |website=48th Highlanders of Canada |access-date=20 September 2024}} Her mother, Martha Elizabeth Telfer, died two and a half months after Sandra's father was killed. Her paternal grandfather was Edward F. Seagram, son of Joseph E. Seagram, the founder of Seagram's distillery.{{cite news |title=Flash From the Past: German bomb disrupts Seagram family branch |url=https://www.therecord.com/life/waterloo-region/flash-from-the-past-german-bomb-disrupts-seagram-family-branch/article_40aaac89-58d9-5bb3-9d63-7a39eadf2135.html |access-date=20 September 2024 |work=Waterloo Region Record |date=28 January 2022}}
After her parents' deaths, she was raised by her paternal uncle Campbell Seagram. She was educated at Branksome Hall, a private girls' school in Toronto.
On 17 July 1958, when she was 20 years old, Seagram became the last debutante to be presented at the Court of St James's.{{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=James |title=Remember This? Ottawa’s last presentation of debutantes |url=https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2021/01/25/remember-this-ottawas-last-presentation-of-debutantes-3290475/ |access-date=20 September 2024 |work=City News |date=25 January 2021}}{{cite web |title=England: Last of the Debs |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/113830/ |website=British Pathé |access-date=20 September 2024}} Her mother and grandmother had been presented before her.{{cite web |last1=Barnett |first1=Engrid |title=These Were the Last Debutantes Presented to the Queen |url=https://www.grunge.com/858016/these-were-the-last-debutantes-presented-to-the-queen/ |website=Grunge |access-date=20 September 2024}} She curtsied to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, deputizing for an ill Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace.{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Carolyn |title=From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/debutante-history-ball-court-queen-charlotte-real-history-fashion/ |website=History Extra |access-date=20 September 2024}} She was one of 1,400 debutantes presented that season.
In 1959, Seagram married Italian Eugenio Annovazzi and settled in Rome. They have two children.{{cite news |title=Flash From the Past: German bomb disrupts Seagram family branch |url=https://www.therecord.com/life/waterloo-region/flash-from-the-past-german-bomb-disrupts-seagram-family-branch/article_40aaac89-58d9-5bb3-9d63-7a39eadf2135.html |access-date=20 September 2024 |work=Waterloo Region Record |date=28 January 2022}}
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