David K. E. Bruce

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (February 12, 1898 - December 5, 1977) was an American diplomat, and the only American to serve as Ambassador to France, the Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom. Bruce graduated from the University of Virginia in 1920. On May 29, 1926, Bruce married Ailsa Mellon, the daughter of the banker and diplomat Andrew W. Mellon. They divorced on April 20, 1945. Their only daughter, Audrey, and her husband, Stephen Currier, were presumed dead when a plane in which they were flying in the Caribbean disappeared on January 17, 1967, after requesting permission to fly over Culebra, a U. S. Navy installation. No trace of the plane, pilot, or passengers were ever found. Audrey and Stephen Currier left three children: Andrea, Lavinia, and Michael. Bruce married Evangeline Bell (1914-1995) on April 23, 1945, three days after his divorce. They had two sons and one daughter, Alexandra (called Sasha). She died under mysterious circumstances (possibly murder or suicide) in 1975 at age 29 at the Bruce family home in Virginia.