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By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming ( 1925 – 1999 ), who became a noted cellist.

Another of his sons, by Mavis de Vere Cole, is the television director Tristan de Vere Cole noted for his contributions to TV series from the Sixties to the Eighties.

His son Romilly ( 1906 – 1986 ) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist.

Poppet ( 1912 – 1997 ), John's daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol ( 1905 – 1988 ) whose daughter Talitha ( 1940 – 1971 ), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose.

His daughter Gwyneth Johnstone ( 1915 – 2010 ), by musician Nora Brownsword, was an artist.