Editing Constant Lambert (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:ConstantLambertBrompton.jpg|thumb|Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London]]
Lambert's first marriage was to Florence Kaye, on 5 August 1931;<ref>{{cite journal | last=Foss | first=Hubert | title=Constant Lambert, 23 August 1905–21 August 1951 | journal=The Musical Times | volume=92 | issue=1304 | pages=449–451 |date=October 1951}}</ref> their son was [[Kit Lambert]], one of the managers of [[The Who]], named after his friend the painter [[Christopher Wood (painter)|Christopher "Kit" Wood]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Faulks |first=Sebastian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jHcnzR4jR8kC&pg=PA253 |title=The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives |date=2010-01-26 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4070-5264-9 |language=en}}</ref> But he was soon engaged in an on-and-off affair with the ballet dancer [[Margot Fonteyn]]. According to friends of Fonteyn, Lambert was the great love of her life and she despaired when she finally realised he would never marry her.  Some aspects of this relationship were symbolised in his ballet ''[[Horoscope (ballet)|Horoscope]]'' (1938), in which Fonteyn was a principal dancer. After divorcing Kaye, in 1947 Lambert married the artist [[Isabel Rawsthorne|Isabel Delmer]], who designed the stage sets and costumes for his ballet ''Tiresias''; after his death, she married [[Alan Rawsthorne]].<ref>Jacobi, Carol (February 2021). ''[https://www.francis-bacon.com/outofthecage Out of the Cage: The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne]'', London: The Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing.</ref> In 1945 Florence married Charles Edward Peter Hole; their daughter Anne later took the stage name [[Annie Lambert]]. During the 1930s Lambert also had a long affair and friendship with Laureen Goodare (mother of actress [[Cleo Sylvestre]], Constant's goddaughter). Laureen was a dancer and cigarette girl at the [[Shim Sham Club]] in Wardour Street, Soho. Their affair lasted until his untimely death in 1951. 

Close friends of his included [[Michael Ayrton]], [[Sacheverell Sitwell]] and [[Anthony Powell]]. He was the prototype of the character [[List of composers in literature|Hugh Moreland]] in Powell's ''[[A Dance to the Music of Time]]'', particularly in the fifth volume, ''[[Casanova's Chinese Restaurant]]'', in which Moreland is a central character.<ref>Powell, Anthony (1976). ''Memoirs'', Vol 4, ''To Keep The Ball Rolling''.</ref>

Lambert died on 21 August 1951, two days short of his forty-sixth birthday, of [[pneumonia]] and undiagnosed [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetes]] complicated by acute alcoholism, and was buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<ref name="sol">{{cite web |title=Brompton Cemetery Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol41/pp246-252 |website=British History Online |publisher=LCC 1983 |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> His son Kit was buried in the same grave in 1981.