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Wednesday, January 05, 2022

The Baroness Grade, widow of of the impresario Lew Grade, has died aged 100

 The Baroness Grade, who has died aged 100, was the widow of Lew Grade, the life peer as the Baron Grade [1906-98].

She was the former Kathleen Sheila Moody, daughter of John Moody, and was a rising teenage singing star when she met the young Lew Grade [formerly Winogradsky], son of Isaac Winogradsky, a young talent agent and future impresario and media proprietor. They married in 1942.

Lord and Lady Grade had an adopted son, Paul Nicholas Grade [born 1952].

She was a sister-in-law of the life peer the Baron Delfont [1909-94], and an aunt of the the life peer the Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE [b 8 March, 1943].

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