working on a F/A book
 

I'm a pilot usually frequenting the Rumours/News and Aviation Nostalgia forums, so it's my first time here.

A photographer friend and I--his name is Bruce McAllister, he's done half a dozen very successful large-format aviation books, the most recent one on the DC-3/C-47--are doing a book on the history of flight attendants, particularly the 1960s-and-earlier era, when they of course were called stewardesses.

Question: can anybody come up with the names of famous and/or wealthy men who married stewardesses? Doesn't matter how old--or even dead--they are.

One of Australia's previous Prime Ministers, Paul Keating married a KLM flight attendant.

Kelsey Grammar married one too

Audie Murphy and Pamela Archer.
Robert de Niro and Grace Hightower.
Niki Lauda and Birgit Wetzinger.
Cristo and Jeanne Claude.
Andy Brehme and Pilar.
Sultan Tengku Ahmad Shah and Julita Aishah Abdul Latif.
Michael Middleton and Carole.
Roman Abramovich and Irina.

And presumably a few more... :zzz:

Don't know if it counts, Richard Branson's mum was a Dak air hostess.

I know a few pilots who 'keep' books on them! :)

I once flew with a Stewardess who told me her ambition was to meet and marry World Champion snooker player Steve Davis - and she did!!

Also footballing legend an d 1966 world cup hero Bobby Moore was married to BA stewardess Stephanie Parlane.

George Best

Thank you all for your responses!

In Ireland. Dermot Desmond a very successful businessman and very generous contributor to society and charity married an Aer Lingus hostess.

Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath's now deceased wife Jane was a Virgin Atlantic Flight Attendant

Greg Norman's (golfer) ex wife Laura was also a F/A

Former Greek Prime Minister, Andreas Papandreou, divorced his wife at the age of 70, to get married to a glamorous Olympic Airways flight attendant, Ms Dimitra Liani, in 1989.. Big scandal in the country! But he died happy 7 years later..

But he died happy 7 years later.. As did Olympic Airways:E

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, The Sultan of Brunei. His second wife was an Air Stewardess...