As she got older, Audrey got sent off at age five to a boarding school in England. In 1935, her parents divorced; one reason for this was that her father was a Nazi sympathiser. The divorce was very traumatic for six year old Audrey; she would later say it was the most …show more content…
Before becoming an actress, she moved to Holland during the war because her Dutch mother believed they would be safe in a country that had pledged to stay neutral. Hepburn studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory in The Netherlands during World War ll. During the war, she also helped nurse people back to health that were injured. According to author, Sara Bibel, Audrey had to eat tulip bulbs while trapped in Nazi-occupied Holland with her mother. Because of this, it led her to become stronger in the society she lived in and very intelligent. The experiences from the war made her realize what her society really was. After the war, Audrey went to London where she continued to practise ballet and worked as a dancer and