Wallis Annenberg was born on July 15, 1939 in Philadelphia,[REF] the daughter of publishing magnate, Walter Hubert Annenberg, and his first wife, Bernice Veronica Dunkelman (known as Ronny), a socialite from a Toronto, Canada, family.
She had a brother, Roger, who committed suicide at a psychiatric institution in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at age 22 in 1962 while on leave from Harvard University for treatment of schizophrenia [REF].