Editing Stanley Holloway (section)

===Personal life===
Holloway was married twice, first to Alice "Queenie" Foran. They met in June 1913 in Clacton, while he was performing in a concert party and she was selling charity flags on behalf of the [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]].<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 66</ref> Queenie was orphaned at the age of&nbsp;16, something that Holloway felt they had in common, as his mother had died that year and his father had earlier abandoned the family. He married Queenie in November 1913.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68" />

Holloway and Queenie had four children: Joan, born on Holloway's 24th birthday in 1914, Patricia (b. 1920), John (1925–2013) and Mary (b. 1928).<ref>Holloway and Richards, pp. 69–70</ref> Upon the death of her mother, Queenie inherited some property in [[Southampton Row]] and relied on the rents from the property for her income.<ref name=H71>Holloway and Richards, p. 71</ref> During the First World War, while Holloway was away fighting in France, Queenie began to have financial trouble, as the tenants failed to pay their rent. Out of desperation, she approached several loan sharks, incurring a large debt about which Holloway knew nothing.<ref name=H71/> She also started to drink heavily as the pressures from the war and of supporting her daughter took their toll.<ref name=H71/> On Holloway's return from the war, the debt was paid off and they moved to [[Hampstead]], West London.<ref>London Metropolitan Archives, ''Electoral Registers of London (1929)'', p. 9</ref> By the late 1920s, Holloway found himself in financial difficulties with the British tax authorities and was briefly declared bankrupt.<ref>"An Actor's Affairs", ''The Times'', 4 December 1931, p. 4</ref><ref>"Stanley Holloway's Affairs", ''Nottingham Evening Post'', 3 December 1931, p. 9</ref> In the 1930s, Holloway and Queenie moved to [[Bayswater]]<ref>"Tragedy of Stanley Holloway's Wife", ''Evening Telegraph'', 25 November 1937, p. 5</ref> and remained there until Queenie's death in 1937 at the age of&nbsp;45, from [[cirrhosis of the liver]].<ref>London Metropolitan Archives, ''Electoral Registers of London (1937)'', p. 68</ref><ref>Holloway and Richards, pp. 71–72</ref> Of the children from this first marriage, John worked as an engineer in an electrics company, and Mary worked for [[British Petroleum]] for many years.<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 70</ref>

On 2 January 1939, Holloway married the 25-year-old actress and former chorus dancer Violet Marion Lane (1913–1997),<ref name=H170>Holloway and Richards, pp. 170–71</ref><ref>General Register Office, ''England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes'' vol. 8d, p. 182</ref> and they moved to [[Marylebone]].<ref>London Metropolitan Archives, ''Electoral Registers of London'' (1939), p. 104</ref> Violet was born into a working-class family from [[Leeds]].{{#tag:ref|Violet's mother was Scottish, and her civil engineer father, Alfred Lane, was a [[Yorkshire]]man.<ref name=dnb/><ref name=H170/>|group= n}} Although he was a client of the Aza Agency in London, Violet effectively managed Holloway's career, and no project was taken on without her approval. In his autobiography, Holloway said of her, "I suppose I am committing lawful bigamy. Not only is she my wife, lover, mother, cook, chauffeuse, private secretary, house keeper, hostess, electrician, business manager, critic, handy woman, she is also my best friend."<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 65</ref> Together, they had one son, [[Julian Holloway|Julian]], whose brief relationship with [[Tessa Dahl]] produced a daughter, the model and author [[Sophie Dahl]].<ref>Banks-Smith, Nancy. [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/24/the-delicious-miss-dahl-edward-vii-prince-of-pleasure "The Delicious Miss Dahl and Edward VII"], ''The Guardian'', 24 March 2010</ref>{{#tag:ref|Holloway appeared with Neal in the 1965 film ''In Harm's Way''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713115357/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6ad19462 "In Harm's Way"], British Film Institute, accessed 8 October 2012</ref>|group= n}}

Holloway, Violet and Julian lived mainly in the tiny village of [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]].<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 322</ref> Holloway also owned other properties including a flat in [[St John's Wood]] in North West London,<ref>[http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/3433132/Hulton-Archive Holloway's Flat in St. John's Wood (1933)]. Hulton Archive, GettyImages.co.uk, accessed 30 November 2011</ref> which he used when working in the capital,<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 172</ref> and a flat in [[Manhattan]] during the ''My Fair Lady'' Broadway years. The final years of his life were spent in [[Angmering]], West Sussex, with Violet. Holloway forged close friendships with fellow performers including Leslie Henson, Gracie Fields, [[Maurice Chevalier]], Laurence Olivier<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 227</ref> and [[Arthur Askey]], who said of him, "He was the nicest man I ever knew. He never had a wrong word to say about anyone. He was a great actor, a super mimic and a one-man walking comic show."<ref>"Stanley Holloway dies, 91", ''[[The Sunday Express]]'', 31 January 1982</ref> While working in the US, Holloway numbered among his friends [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Burgess Meredith]] and Groucho Marx.<ref>Holloway and Richards, p. 333</ref>