Angelita Helena Margarita de Silva Ferro (1868-1949) was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 actress better known by her stage name Miss N. de Silva.

She was born in 1986 the daughter of Don Ramon de Silva Ferro and was supposedly descended from royalty on both sides of the family.

She married John Martin-Harvey

John Martin-Harvey

John Martin Harvey , known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre....

 in 1889 and become the leading lady of his theater troupe. They met at a performance of Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: and . Although written as a closet drama, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages...

 at Cambridge

Cambridge

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.

During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

she was heavily involved in fundraising for the British army nurses.