Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky. The Porges were Jewish, and several members of the extended family were enormously wealthy. Florence was brought up in Paris. In 1942, during the German occupation, their Paris town house, their art collections and their stocks were seized and they moved to London, where Florence worked for the Free French. In London the former Mrs Hordern used to give parties for Australian Air Force officers and there Florence met Wing Commander Noel Vincent. They married in 1946 and she moved to Australia with him. In 1964, she married Sir Frank Packer and they lived in Australia until he died ten years later. She returned to Monte Carlo to care for her mother, who died in 1978 and then she divided her time between Monte Carlo and Edgecliff.
