Julia Callan-Thompson
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Julia Callan-Thompson was a model
, designer
(under the name Marstan et Bonnie) and socialite
, born in South Wales
, from an Irish
family.
Callan-Thompson lived and worked mostly in London
having arrived in 1960 at the age of sixteen. Whilst there she was member of Steve Abram's SOMA Research Association, the Notting Hill Free School, Racial Adjustment Action Society as well as other lesser known political, magical and social/community groups of the time.
She worked closely with both Alexander Trocchi
, Michael X
and other less known counter-cultural personalities such as Terry Taylor
and Francis Morland. While working around the Murray’s Cabaret Club, she was also friendly with Christine Keeler
and others caught up in the Profumo Affair
.
Towards the end of the 1960s she lived in India
and the United States
where she joined Shri Guru Maharaj Ji
's Divine Light Mission
which she was a part of until she died in London (at home in a Notting Hill pad) in December 1979 aged 35.
She was survived by her son Stewart Home
.
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
, designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
(under the name Marstan et Bonnie) and socialite
Socialite
A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....
, born in South Wales
South Wales
South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...
, from an Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
family.
Callan-Thompson lived and worked mostly in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
having arrived in 1960 at the age of sixteen. Whilst there she was member of Steve Abram's SOMA Research Association, the Notting Hill Free School, Racial Adjustment Action Society as well as other lesser known political, magical and social/community groups of the time.
She worked closely with both Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi was a Scottish novelist.-Early career:Trocchi was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. After working as a seaman on the Murmansk convoys, he attended University of Glasgow. On graduation he obtained a traveling grant that enabled him to...
, Michael X
Michael X
Michael X , born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago to a Portuguese father and a Bajan-born mother, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik...
and other less known counter-cultural personalities such as Terry Taylor
Terry Taylor
Terry Taylor , is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation...
and Francis Morland. While working around the Murray’s Cabaret Club, she was also friendly with Christine Keeler
Christine Keeler
Christine Margaret Keeler is an English former model and showgirl. Her involvement with a British government minister discredited the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan in 1963, in what is known as the Profumo Affair....
and others caught up in the Profumo Affair
Profumo Affair
The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Russian spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of...
.
Towards the end of the 1960s she lived in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
where she joined Shri Guru Maharaj Ji
Prem Rawat
Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge....
's Divine Light Mission
Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission was an organization founded in 1960 by guru Shri Hans Ji Maharaj for his following in northern India. During the 1970s, the DLM gained prominence in the West under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Guru Maharaj Ji...
which she was a part of until she died in London (at home in a Notting Hill pad) in December 1979 aged 35.
She was survived by her son Stewart Home
Stewart Home
Stewart Home is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess , his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love , and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red...
.