Editing David Niven (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:David Niven at CPH.jpg|thumb|Niven with his family at [[Copenhagen Airport]] (5 August 1958)]]
[[File:David Niven with his wife Hjördis Genberg, 1960.jpg|thumb|upright|Niven with his wife [[Hjördis Genberg]] (Hjördis Tersmeden), 1960]]
While on leave in 1940, Niven met Primula "Primmie" Susan Rollo (18 February 1918 – 21 May 1946), the daughter of London lawyer William H.C. Rollo. After a whirlwind romance, they married on 16 September 1940. A son, [[David Niven Jr.|David Jr.]], was born in December 1942 and a second son, James Graham Niven, on 6 November 1945. Primmie died at the age of 28, six weeks after the family moved to the US. She fractured her skull in a fall in the [[Beverly Hills]] home of [[Tyrone Power]] and [[Annabella (actress)|Annabella]], while playing a game of [[Hide-and-seek#Variants|sardines]]. She had walked through a door believing it to be a closet, but instead, it led to a stone staircase to the basement.<ref>Karin J. Fowler (1995) ''David Niven: a Bio-Biography'', Greenwood Press. {{ISBN|978-0313280443}}</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59355516 ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA: 1902–1954) "David Niven's wife in death crash" 26 May 1946, P.3] Retrieved 12 January 2016</ref>

In 1948, Niven met and married [[Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden]] (née Genberg, 1919–1997), a divorced Swedish fashion model. He recounted their meeting:
{{blockquote|I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life{{snd}}tall, slim, auburn hair, up-tilted nose, lovely mouth and the most enormous grey eyes I had ever seen. It really happened the way it does when written by the worst lady novelists&nbsp;... I goggled. I had difficulty swallowing and had champagne in my knees.<ref name="Moon"/>}}

The relationship between Niven and Hjördis was turbulent.<ref>{{cite news| title=The flawed real life of the perfect movie gentleman| url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-flawed-real-life-of-the-perfect-movie-gentleman-26552274.html| access-date=22 March 2024| newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]| location=[[Dublin]]| language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=David Niven wife: Roger Moore claimed Niven's partner 'was a b**** to him'| url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1571980/david-niven-wife-roger-moore-around-the-world-80-days-james-bond-spt| last=Bradley| first=Charley| date=27 February 2022| newspaper=[[Daily Express]]| location=[[London]]| access-date=22 March 2024}}</ref>

In 1960, Niven bought a chalet in [[Château-d'Œx]] near [[Gstaad]] in Switzerland, living near expatriate friends including [[Deborah Kerr]], [[Peter Ustinov]], and [[Noël Coward]].<ref name="Munn2014">{{cite book |author=Michael Munn |title=David Niven: The Man Behind the Balloon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrDFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT197 |date=20 March 2014 |publisher=[[Aurum Press]] |isbn=978-1-78131-372-5 |pages=197– }}</ref><ref name="Fowler1995">{{cite book |last=Fowler |first=Karin J. |title=David Niven: A Bio-bibliography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-goH8EEbKD8C&pg=PA167 |date=1 January 1995 |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0-313-28044-3 |pages=167– }}</ref> It is believed that Niven's choice to become a [[tax exile]] may have been one reason why he never received a British honour.<ref name="Greenfield1995">{{cite book |last=Greenfield |first=George |title=A Smattering of Monsters: A Kind of Memoir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yRfaQDASdkC&pg=PA187|date=1 January 1995|publisher=[[Camden House Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-57113-071-6 |pages=187– }}</ref> However, Kerr, Ustinov, and Coward were honoured. A 2009 biography of Niven contained assertions that he had an affair with [[Princess Margaret]], who was 20 years his junior.<ref>{{cite news|authorlink=Michael Munn|last=Munn|first=Michael|date=24 May 2009|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6349165.ece|title=Oh God, I wanted her to die|newspaper=[[The Sunday Times]]|accessdate=29 May 2009|archive-date=6 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106154450/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6349165.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also became close friends with [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] and his wife Pat; Buckley wrote a memorial tribute to him in ''Miles Gone By'' (2004).

Eventually Niven divided his time between his chalet in Château-d'Œx<ref>{{cite web|url=https://map.search.ch/Ch%C3%A2teau-d%27Oex,ch.David-Niven-7?pos=576414,147250&zoom=18|title=Ch. David Niven 7: Château-d'Oex|website=map.search.ch|accessdate=22 September 2022}}</ref> and his home at [[Cap Ferrat]] on the [[Côte d'Azur]] in the south of France.<ref name="Munn2014"/>