The story of Pamela Harriman is really the story of six lives: English debutante, wartime hostess, international femme fatale, Broadway producer's wife, Washington power-broker and finally, American Ambassador. Pamela Digby propelled herself from the English countryside to the streets of Georgetown. Along the way, she charmed and bedded some of the richest men of her day: Jock Whitney, William Paley, Elie Rothschild, Gianni Agnelli and Averell Harriman. In the 1970s, when the Democratic party needed a boost, she stepped in and helped to financially and spiritually rejuvenate the party. In so doing, she transferred herself from a well-known courtesan into a woman of substance. In return for her political work, Pamela was appointed Ambassador to France in 1993. When she died in 1997, the Presidents of both the United States and France praised her effusively. Pamela Digby Harriman had certainly fulfilled her childhood goal of becoming a woman of the world.