![]() ![]() On discovering that the two would be in Miami at the same time, he told Collins to look her up. The initial meeting had been arranged by Stirling Moss, who had encountered King during the annual Nassau Speed Week in the Bahamas in 1956. He was a 25-year-old racing driver from Kidderminster in Worcestershire, starting his second season as a member of the Ferrari grand prix team.Įnzo Ferrari, who believed that marriage slowed his drivers down, was the only one who did not entirely approve of the sudden arrival of King, who has died aged 88, in Collins’s life. She was a 24-year-old American actor on tour with the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch, taking the Marilyn Monroe role. Two days later, as they sunbathed by a local hotel pool, he proposed – and the following Monday they were married. ![]() Louise King met Peter Collins in a Miami bar on a Monday night in 1957. ![]()
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