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Mar 8, 2023 · Oberon was, in fact, the child of her then 12-year-old half-sister, Constance. Oberon seemed to have some sense of the pitfalls of her blurry identity from a young age, growing up in poverty...
A theory that has circulated is that Constance became pregnant as a result of rape by her step-father, Arthur Thompson. To avoid scandal, Charlotte raised Merle as Constance's half-sister. Charlotte had herself given birth to Constance at the age of 14 as the result of rape by Henry Alfred Selby, the Anglo-Irish foreman of a tea plantation.
Jan 31, 2014 · Constance went on to marry a man called Alexander Soares and had four other children, Edna, Douglas, Harry and Stanislaus. All grew up believing Oberon was their aunt rather than their...
Apr 15, 2022 · Selby's daughter Constance had Oberon as a teenager but the two were reportedly raised together as sisters for some years. Oberon's first big break came from Sir Alexander Korda - a filmmaker...
Jul 28, 2017 · It turns out that Selby was really Oberon’s grandmother; the actress’s birth mother was actually Selby’s daughter Constance, who was only 12 years old when she had Oberon. Arthur Thompson had...
Charlotte’s 12-year-old daughter Constance was Oberon’s real mother, and the starlet's real father is unknown to this day. In order to avoid prevent public embarrassment, Charlotte put her own name on the birth certificate.
Feb 21, 2017 · Her mother was Constance Selby, a 15-year-old girl from Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), but because Constance was so young, her mother Charlotte Selby raised Oberon as her own.
