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Antique Annotated Calling Card Party King Edward VII Mistress Princess de Sagan
Product code:
6083
£95.00
For sale is a fine antique embossed calling card from one of King Edward VII mistresses, French aristocrat, art collector & socialite, Jeanne de Seilliere, Princesse de Sagan (1839-1905), she was one of his lovers' between 1866 to the mid 1880s. It is annotated by the Princess inviting the recipients to Garden Party at her home on 18th June at 4 pm 1890, it is accompanied by a contemporary newspaper article from Figaro detailing the guests at the party.
From the collection of Richard and Mary Winslow, wealthy American socialites who owned the Villa Winslow in Cannes during the 1880s and 1890s. They were friends with aristocrats and royals from all over the world. Mary was a great beauty and had by family traditon once been a mistress of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
She was the wife of Boson von Sagan de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duc de Talleyrand (1832-1910) an industrial heiress being the daughter of Achille Seilliere, and had made a grand match' by marrying into the grand Talleyrand-Perigord family, who also owned the Sagan estates. She passed most of her time at her homes in Cannes and Deauville, and at the Chateau de Mello, about sixty miles south of Paris, which she had spent considerable money on restoring and developing. Far from being annoyed by the fact that Bertie was having an affair with his wife, the Prince de Sagan reveled in it, finding it rather chic to be cuckolded by the Prince of Wales. When Jeanne de Sagan bore a child, nine years after the birth of her first son, Helie, he was assumed by all to be the son of Bertie.
Photographs form part of the Description
Size of Card: 10 x 7 cm approx
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