DIANA MILLER

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The Anglo-Swedish singer Diana Miller was born Winifred Caroline Briggs in London, 4 November 1916.



Diana Miller made-recorded records and participated in several films. She came to Scandinavia in 1939. The most of the war she lived in Sweden. In Sweden she met the Danish girl Ketty Selmer. Diana chose to stay in Sweden for a while after the war, but she felt that it was more convenient to travel around Europe, with Copenhagen as the starting point.

Diana Miller moved to Denmark in 1952. Diana Miller bought a house north of Copenhagen, where she lived with Ketty Selmer.

In March 1959 she was in Jutland married to a Danish chef, but divorced after 9 years. She kept the rest of his life his new Danish surname.

Diana Miller formed the trio "The Diana Miller Trio" with Inger Lindberg and Siw Karlén. The trio toured in most of Europe around 1963.


In 1963 Diana Miller left Denmark and settled again in Sweden. She and Ketty Selmer moved to Mallorca  around 1976. Here Diana Miller bought a bigger house in the middle of the small town of Betlem.


From the opposite side of Alcudiabugten can glimpse the small town Betlem as the outer housing on the peninsula.


Diana Miller's house was in the midst of the small town. In the front part, facing the road, she would initially create a Piano bar.

From the house she had a view over Alcudia-Bay straight up, which in 1980-1981 was listed a number of new houses close to her house.

Diana Miller was outraged at loosing her view. Her mood did not improved as the local municipality refused to grant permission to place a Piano bar overlooking the road in the front of the house. She had stop singing, but sometimes could be persuaded to sing in the local restaurant "Casablanca".


Diana Miller and Ketty Selmer lived in the house to the left from about 1976. In the early eighties many new houses was build on the road including just on the opposite side of the road.


Casablanca Restaurant, where a rare time to hear Diana Miller singing when she was urged.

When she filled 75 years she had invited the whole city to feast at the local hotel. Many came up and carried it himself to be enjoyed. Diana had never been on giving money. She had not so well with local taxes, fees for roads / lights etc. At one point she had to cede the back half of the house that was bought by two doctors from Palma.


Few hundred meters from his home kept Diana Miller's 75 birthday at the local hotel.

Ketty Selmer always stayed inside the house and sometimes we Ketty Selmer in town was when Diana Miller had her in his big old Chrysler. Ketty Selmer, who had been very even in his younger days, was probably not on a daily basis in a state where it was reasonable that she drove.

Ketty Selmer died in their shared home in 1989. Diana Miller sold the remainder of the house to a Swede on the condition that she should be allowed to stay in the house until his death. In early 1993 she came to hospital in Palma in order to undergo surgery. While she was in hospital she had an intense contact with old friends and acquaintances from the hospital phone.

She, however, no more back to Betlem. She died 1 March 1993 at a nursing home in Palma. Very few knew her real name and nobody knew she sixties in Denmark had been married a few years.

Diana Miller was always somewhere between 50 and 90 cats in the house and in a special enclosure farm. She knew all their dogs, as she had named. After her death the many cats were removed and left to an animalhospital.


Between the main building and the back building had Diana Miller designed a large farm, where her cat could be. The farm was fenced with a large grill.


It was not possible for authorities to find relatives or family members. She had been married in the period 1959-1968. Diana Miller was buried in grave at Palma Cemetery. The paper says Winifred Caroline and her husband's surname.

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