She was the only daughter of chemicals heiress and philanthropist Peggy Zinsser (d 1992) and politician Lewis W. Douglas (d 1974) who served as Arizona congressman, director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1933 until 1934, and United States ambassador to the Court of Saint James"s from 1947 until 1950.
Vassar College.
At various times in her life, "Charmin" Sharman," as she was known during her father"s tenure as ambassador, worked as a talent agent, a movie publicist, and a public-relations agent. In 1966, New York City mayor John Lindsay named her New York"s Commissioner of Public Events. Linked romantically to the Marquess of Blandford and the Marquess of Milford Haven in the 1950s, she also reportedly had a two-year relationship with the United Kingdom"s Princess Margaret, according to "Margaret: The Secret Princess," an Independent Television program broadcast in Britain in February 2003.
Sharman Douglas married Andrew MacKenzie Hay, a food importer, in 1968.
They divorced in 1977. Sharman Douglas died of bone cancer at New York Hospital in 1996.
