Cherry Hambro, Baroness Hambro (4 December 1933 – 27 March 2017), born Cherry Felicity Huggins, was a British journalist who was associated with the fashion scene in 1960s swinging London when she worked for Vogue, Queen magazine and as the first fashion editor of the Saturday colour magazine of The Daily Telegraph. In her youth she was known for her love of aircraft, fast cars, fast boats and fast men. Later, she was the second wife of the banker Lord Hambro.
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Early life
Cherry Huggins was born in Penang, Malaysia, on 4 December 1933 to Sir John Huggins (1891–1971) and Molly Huggins (née Green). She was the second of three sisters. Her father was a colonial administrator in Penang and subsequently Trinidad. He was governor of Jamaica 1943–51. She was educated at Roedean School in England, and at a finishing school in New York, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from the age of 17 where she won the Silver Medal.
Noël Coward visited while the family were at King's House, Jamaica, and wrote a verse for Cherry:
Now Little Cherry Huggins was a glamorous soubrette
And everyone adored her from the vicar to the vet