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May 4th, 1929

Audrey Kathleen Ruston is born.

1935

Audrey's father walks out on her and her mother, she also starts to take ballet classes

May, 1940

German soldiers march through Arnhem, they confiscate everyones belongs.

May 4th, 1945

 The Nazi invasion ended.

July 17, 1960

Audrey gives birth to Sean Ferrer

November 21, 1968

Audrey and Mel divorces, but Audrey retains custody of Sean and the house in Tolochenaz

1934

Audrey was sent to boarding school by her mother at the age of 5.

1938

Audrey's parents divorce

1942

Audrey's uncle and 4 others were executed by the Nazis purely for publicity.

September 24, 1954

Audrey gets married with Mel Ferrer

1961

Audrey's dog, Mr. Famous gets run over on Wilshire Boulevard, but gets a new dog, Sam

January 18, 1969

Audrey gets married again to Andrea Dotti

February 8, 1970

Audrey gives birth to her second child, Luca Dotti

1980

Audrey and Andrea Dotti divorces, unfortunately, her father dies

1987

Audrey is officially appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF

January 20, 1993

4 months before her 64th birthday, Audrey Hepburn, unfortunately, dies at home in her sleep.

1979

During their marriage Dotti's role as husband continues to include going out with young women; and, embarrassingly, his outings are duly recorded in the newspapers

August 26, 1984

Audrey's mother dies:"I was lost without my mother. She had been my sounding board, my conscience. She was not the most affectionate person in fact there were times when I thought she was cold but she loved me in her heart, and I knew that all along. I never got that feeling from my father, unfortunately."

1988-1992

Audrey goes to Ethiopia, Turkey, Central America, Bangkok, Bangladesh, Africa and Somalia

January 24, 1993

She is buried in the cemetery at Tolochenaz-sur-Morges. In attendance at the funeral, as well as her two sons and Rob Wolders, are her brother Ian Quarles von Ufford, Dr. Andrea Dotti, Hubert de Givenchy, executives of UNICEF, actor friends Alain Delon and Roger Moore, and Mel Ferrer. Maurice Eindiguer, the pastor who had married Hepburn and Ferrer thirty-nine years earlier, presides over the funeral.

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