Provenance: from the Estate of Janine (Spaner) Metz, Social Secretary to the Duchess of Windsor. The daughter of Parisian couturier Jack Spaner and his wife Jacqueline Brassiens, After returning to Paris from NYC, she had an interview with the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor. She was chosen over many applicants and became for a decade the trusted assistant and confidant of one of the world's most famous and fashionable women.