Penelope Tree [SEP] mother
Penelope Tree
Penelope Tree (born 2 December 1949) is an English former fashion model prominent in swinging sixties London.
Family.
Penelope Tree is the only child of Ronald, a British journalist, investor and Conservative MP, and Marietta Peabody Tree, a U.S. socialite and political activist. She is the great-granddaughter of American retailer Marshall Field and of American educator Endicott Peabody. She is the half-sister of both the racehorse trainer Jeremy Tree and the author Frances FitzGerald and a niece of former Massachusetts governor
father was Ronald Tree, an American-born British journalist, investor and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Harborough constituency in Leicestershire. His mother, Nancy Lancaster, was a niece of the MP Nancy Astor through whom young Jeremy would be introduced to the sport of Thoroughbred racing. Jeremy Tree was a paternal half-brother of the model Penelope Tree and full-brother of Michael Lambert Tree.
Racing career.
Jeremy Tree embarked on a career in racing in 1947 after inheriting the bloodstock of his uncle