Mabel Cabot

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Mabel "Muffie" Cabot (born Mabel Hobart in Boston, Massachusetts) is the daughter of explorer Janet Elliott Wulsin and her second husband Richard Hobart, a banker and collector of Chinese art.

She received her bachelor's degree from Smith College and married Eric Wentworth, a reporter for the Washington Post. They had a son and two daughters, including actress Alexandra Wentworth.

Mabel's second husband was Henry Brandon, chief American correspondent for the London Sunday Times. During this marriage (using the name Mabel H. Brandon) she served as Social Secretary to First Lady Nancy Reagan during the 1980s.

When Brandon died in 1993, she married Louis Cabot, a descendant of the Mayflower Cabots, and returned to Boston. In 2003, she published a book, Vanished Kingdoms (ISBN 0-641-68638-2), about her mother's travels in the 1920s.