GALITZINE, Princess Emma ([Countess] Emma Magdalen nee DE BENDERN) Emma 1950-2021
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Richard R
Feb 11, 2021, 5:46:12 AM2/11/21
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Obit in the Times of 11 Feb 2021
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Princess Emma Galitzine obituary
Much-married, free-spirited society hostess who seemed to have walked straight out of the pages of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies
...Emma Magdalen de Bendern was born in London in 1950, the third child of Lady Patricia DOUGLASS, daughter of the 11th Marquess of QUEENSBERRY, who was married to John de Forest, an English amateur golf champion who used the Liechtenstein title Count John de Bendern. They were divorced seven months after their daughter’s birth and Emma once confided to a friend that her biological father was Herman “Marno” Hornak, a libidinous sculptor who became her mother’s second husband.
...By her mid-teens she had fallen in with a cast of amoral characters that included John Bindon, an actor and gangster who claimed he once had a fling with Princess Margaret, and Bryan Walsh, a handsome criminal ...He was something of a fixer on the fringes of high society. ... As a debutante she was at Queen Charlotte’s Ball at the Dorchester Hotel when the leather-clad Walsh, who had a side-line as a getaway driver for bank robberies, rode up on his motorcycle. She ... rode pillion into the sunset. Two days before her 18th birthday she gave birth to their daughter, Atalanta, who has been a professional surfer.
In 1970 she met [the journalist Nigel] DEMPSTER [1941-2007 who m & div 2nd a dau of 11th Duke of LEEDS and had a dau] at a friend’s wedding. [...a racing bet led to] a whirlwind romance. They had a grand wedding with a reception at Les Ambassadeurs in Mayfair and, bizarrely, Emma’s mother joined them in bed for the first night of their marriage.
...in 1974 he and Emma divorced. The next year she married Giles Trentham, a founder of the interiors company Fired Earth whose previous wife married John Cleese; they had a daughter, Amber, who is a screenwriter. That was dissolved and in 1986 she married Prince George Galitzine, an art director. They had a son, Dmitri, who is an artist. That marriage ended in 1992 and she remarried Trentham, who died ten weeks later. She spent 12 years with John Wickham, who works in shipping, and for the past eight years had been with Jeremy Walsh, a stockbroker.
Princess Emma Galitzine, society hostess, was born on March 2, 1950. She died on January 28, 2021, after a fall aged 70
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/princess-emma-galitzine-obituary-3qcbpfvcb
EXTRACT
Princess Emma Galitzine obituary
Much-married, free-spirited society hostess who seemed to have walked straight out of the pages of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies
...Emma Magdalen de Bendern was born in London in 1950, the third child of Lady Patricia DOUGLASS, daughter of the 11th Marquess of QUEENSBERRY, who was married to John de Forest, an English amateur golf champion who used the Liechtenstein title Count John de Bendern. They were divorced seven months after their daughter’s birth and Emma once confided to a friend that her biological father was Herman “Marno” Hornak, a libidinous sculptor who became her mother’s second husband.
...By her mid-teens she had fallen in with a cast of amoral characters that included John Bindon, an actor and gangster who claimed he once had a fling with Princess Margaret, and Bryan Walsh, a handsome criminal ...He was something of a fixer on the fringes of high society. ... As a debutante she was at Queen Charlotte’s Ball at the Dorchester Hotel when the leather-clad Walsh, who had a side-line as a getaway driver for bank robberies, rode up on his motorcycle. She ... rode pillion into the sunset. Two days before her 18th birthday she gave birth to their daughter, Atalanta, who has been a professional surfer.
In 1970 she met [the journalist Nigel] DEMPSTER [1941-2007 who m & div 2nd a dau of 11th Duke of LEEDS and had a dau] at a friend’s wedding. [...a racing bet led to] a whirlwind romance. They had a grand wedding with a reception at Les Ambassadeurs in Mayfair and, bizarrely, Emma’s mother joined them in bed for the first night of their marriage.
...in 1974 he and Emma divorced. The next year she married Giles Trentham, a founder of the interiors company Fired Earth whose previous wife married John Cleese; they had a daughter, Amber, who is a screenwriter. That was dissolved and in 1986 she married Prince George Galitzine, an art director. They had a son, Dmitri, who is an artist. That marriage ended in 1992 and she remarried Trentham, who died ten weeks later. She spent 12 years with John Wickham, who works in shipping, and for the past eight years had been with Jeremy Walsh, a stockbroker.
Princess Emma Galitzine, society hostess, was born on March 2, 1950. She died on January 28, 2021, after a fall aged 70
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/princess-emma-galitzine-obituary-3qcbpfvcb
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Feb 11, 2021, 7:49:22 AM2/11/21
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An interesting obituary, shouldn't the correct title be Princess George Galitzine? Princess Emma being reserved for one born a princess and remaining unmarried?
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Feb 12, 2021, 2:51:06 AM2/12/21
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Article from the Mail about the late Emma Galitzine.
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