Background
Miller was born on 29 June 1923. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse They had met on the Western Front during World War I. She was brought up in Rudgwick, Sussex, England.
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Beatrix Miller
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She was educated to the age of 17 by tutors and later studied for six months at University of Paris.
Career
She was editor of Queen from 1958 to 1964, and editor of British Vogue from 1964 to 1985. Miller began her career as a secretary. After the war, she worked with MI6 in Germany, and at the Nuremberg Trials.
She rarely spoke about those two years of her life.
She began her journalistic career as a secretary for The Queen, a British society magazine. She also wrote features for the magazine, and ended her time there as features editors
In 1956, she moved to New York where she joined the American version of Vogue as a copywriter. In 1958, The Queen was bought by Jocelyn Stevens and Miller was invited to return to the magazine as editors
She changed the renamed Queen into a magazine for young women rather than one aimed at the older, traditional socialite.
In 1964, she became editor of British Vogue. Her final issue of the magazine was the largest ever at 470 pages. Under her editorship, the magazine had become "the glossy bible to high-fashion".
She retired in 1984.
After her retirement, Miller, Terence Conran and Jean Muir set up a think tank to serve as a link between the government and the fashion industry. In retirement she lived in a cottage in Wiltshire. She had planned to write a memoir titled Life After a Fashion or Life to the Letter but never completed lieutenant
She died on 21 February 2014.
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Membership
She also served as a member of the council of the Royal College of Art, a postgraduate institution in London specialising in art and design.
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