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Dame Zara Bate DBE (10 March 190914 June 1989) was an Australian fashion designer and wife (later widow) of the Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. ==Early life and career== Bate was born in Kew, Victoria as Zara Kate Dickins. She was educated at Ruyton Girls' School and Toorak College. In 1925, aged 19, she and her friend Bettine 'Betty' James (later the wife of Sir Roy Grounds) established a dress shop in Little Collins Street. With another friend, she later opened a salon, called ''Magg'', in Toorak Village. In 1961 a Magg dress won the ''Australian Gown of the Year'' award.〔Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 17 by PA Pemberton〕 Her first husband was Colonel James Fell, by whom she had three sons, Nicholas (1937) and twins Sam and Andrew (1939). Their marriage broke down soon after the birth of the twins. They divorced, and in 1947 she married Harold Holt, a Liberal Party politician. He legally adopted her children and gave them his surname. Tom Frame's biography ''The Life and Death of Harold Holt'' reveals that Holt was the twins' biological father. Harold Holt was a member of Robert Menzies' Cabinet continuously from 1949, becoming deputy Liberal leader in 1956 and Treasurer in 1958. When Menzies retired in January 1966, Holt became Prime Minister. In December 1967, he drowned and his body was never recovered. Zara Holt was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, for "devotion to the public interest".〔(It's an Honour )〕 In 1968 Dame Zara published ''My Life and Harry: An autobiography''.〔Dame Zara Holt (1968), ''My Life and Harry. An Autobiography'', Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne〕 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「Zara Bate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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