American socialite and athlete Joe Carstairs was BOTD in 1900. Born Marion Carstairs in London to a wealthy military family with aristocratic connections, she was raised in boarding schools in Connecticut. She entered into a lavender marriage with her childhood friend Count Jacques de Pret in 1918, largely to gain financial independence from her mother. The marriage was unconsummated and annulled three years later. During World War One, she became an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross in France, helping bury the war dead with the Royal Army Service Corps. After the war, she started a female-staffed chauffeuring service. In 1925, she inherited her family fortune and became a professional speedboat racer, winning a number of international competitions. She purchased an island in the Bahamas in 1934, which she turned into her own feudal kingdom, hosting celebrities including Marlene Dietrich and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and employing hundreds of Bahamians as near-slaves. Famous for dressing in men’s clothes, she took up bodybuilding and enthusiastically collected sailor tattoos. She had a number of affairs with women, including Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead and Dolly Wilde and was in a long-term relationship with Ruth Baldwin. Her most beloved possession was a Steiff doll whom she named Lord Tod Wadley, dressing it in bespoke Savile Row suits and posing together in photographs. She died in 1993 at the age of 93. Lord Tod was cremated with her, and their ashes were buried, together with Baldwin’s, in Oakland Cemetery.