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Chloe, 47, was a scion of the family which made its fortune from textiles in the 19th century and founded London's world-renowned Courtauld Institute of Art<br>Chloe Courtauld shattered convention when she appeared in Country Life's celebrated ‘Girl in Pearls' page dressed in leathers, astride a flame-red motorbike, showing just a glimpse of diamond necklace.<br>But that famous shot has now become a heart-breaking memorial as Chloe has died suddenly aged only 47.<br>‘It's a real tragedy,' a family friend tells me.<br><br>‘She was utterly delightful.'<br>Chloe, pictured, a scion of the family which made its fortune from textiles in the 19th century and founded 's world-renowned Courtauld Institute of Art, is understood to have been discovered gravely ill earlier this month.<br>She died some time later at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.<br><br>Cruelly, it is not the first such tragedy suffered by the family, as her beloved only sibling, Jamie, who was two years her senior, died equally suddenly in 2012.<br>Chloe made headlines when she and a friend trekked over 200 miles across Greenland's ice-cap in 21 days.<br>The 2009 expedition was inspired by her great-uncle, Augustine Courtauld, who survived one of the most extraordinary feats in Arctic exploration when he endured five months alone in the Thirties.<br>He was rescued from the polar ice floes having spent the entire time in temperatures of minus 41C.<br>Professor Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute for which Chloe's expedition raised significant funds, tells me: ‘It's tragic.<br><br>Chloe was a very good and highly motivated person.'<br>When she dazzled in Country Life in 1998, the magazine's then features editor, Melanie Cable-Alexander, described her as ‘perfect', hailing her as ‘a blast of fresh air' and ‘very, very beautiful'.<br>        'A blast of fresh air': Chloe in her iconic 1998 'Girl in Pearls' pose for Country Life magazine<br>After working in motor racing, she embraced the eco-movement, before taking a job in marketing for the fashionable Kingham Plough restaurant in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.<br>Chloe had a younger extended family as her mother, Anthea, had another daughter by her second husband, Hugh Wodehouse.<br>Her father, Richard Courtauld, had two more daughters with his second wife, the model-turned-photographer Jill Kennington, who was twice Vogue's cover-girl and [https://pinfaves.com/jamie-park-weight-loss/ pinfaves.com] also appeared in cult Sixties film, Blow-Up.<br>  RELATED ARTICLES              <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>  Passionate painter Prince Charles wants to turn his Scottish stately home into a creative hub. 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