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Audrey Florice Durrell Drummond Sale-Barker〔(Ancestry.com ). London, England, Electoral Registers, 1935 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, 2010.〕 (b. 1903 in Chelsea, London,〔(FreeBMD )〕 d. 21 December 1994 in Dorset, England〔(The Countess of Selkirk ), ''The Herald'' (Glasgow), 24 Dec. 1994.〕), nicknamed Wendy,〔(Channelography )〕〔(Mail Online ) Glenys Roberts, "Silk stocking and Spitfires: The dark reality of the girls who flew dangerous wartime missions." ''The Daily Mail'', 12 Sept 2007.〕 was a British alpine skiing champion and prominent aviator. She was born into high society, the daughter of children's writer Lucy Sale-Barker and Maurice Drummond-Sale-Barker.〔(thePeerage.com ) ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 106th ed., (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, vol. 2, p. 2578〕 After her marriage to George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk in 1947, she became Audrey Douglas-Hamilton, Countess of Selkirk. ==Skiing career== An inaugural member of the Ladies' Ski Club organized by Sir Arnold Lunn, she was the first female skier to win the diamond badge at the prestigious Arlberg-Kandahar race, signifying at least four top-three finishes in the combined race. She won the combined title at the second A-K race, held in St. Anton in 1929.〔(Google Books ) Arnold Lunn, ''The Story of Ski-ing''. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952, pp. 87, 97, 207.〕 American skier Alice Kiare described Sale-Barker as a striking figure: Sale-Barker was captain of the British women's team at the 1936 Winter Olympics, held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, the first Olympics to include alpine skiing.〔Whittell, Giles. ''Spitfire Women of World War II''. London: HarperPress, 2007, p. 83-85.〕 During her ski career, Sale-Barker was romantically linked to Alexander Edward John Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Knebworth (1910-1942), an "impossibly dashing" young viscount who served as president of the Kandahar Ski Club before dying in a plane crash during World War II.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Audrey Sale-Barker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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