Antique Gilded Age Yacht Menu White Ladye Ogden Goelet Hosts Prince of Wales
Antique Gilded Age Yacht Menu White Ladye Ogden Goelet Hosts Prince of Wales
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Fine antique menu embossed with the ensigns of SY White Lady a steam yacht originally built as Mira in 1883 by Ramage & Ferguson of Leith and was renamed White Lady by one of the Gilded Age's wealthiest yachtsmen Ogden Goelet (1851-1897), a wealthy New York financier when he purchased it. It was considered one of the most luxurious private yachts of the era. After his death the yacht was sold to the Duke of Manchester and Lillie Langtry. The menu is from the time of the Cannes Regatta and is beautifully embossed and handwritten in French. The Prince of Wales later King Edward VII yacht Britannia won the race on 13th March 1891 and later in the afternoon following the race the Prince of Wales along with the Winslows and other members of the aristocracy went on board White Ladye and this is the menu from that occasion. The Prince celebrated the evening with Richard Winslow at Villa Winslow. It is accompanied by Goelet's calling card annotated in pencil by him as well as newspaper cuttings in French and in English detailing the event. Also included is an original photograph of Ogden Goelet's son Ogden Goelet II (190-7-1969), with Count and Countess Robert de Bruisseret in Paris after a menu of 5 kilos of Persian caviar annotated on the reverse.
From the collection of Richard Winslow (1848-1896), born in Chicago to Hezekiah and Helen nee Clarke and Mary Aphia Winslow nee Hurlings Denison (1861-1933), she was born in Pennsylvania to Charles a lawyer and member of the 38th Congress of the USA, her mother was Mary Elizabeth Hulings. They married on the Isle of Wight in 1883 and they had two children that died in infancy. They were wealthy Americans who owned the magnificent Villa Winslow in Cannes during the 1890s as well as a yacht named "Kitty", and were friends with aristocrats and royals from all over the world. Mary was a great beauty and had by family tradition once been a mistress of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
His obituary: "Ogden Goelet, a descendant of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the city, died unexpectedly Tuesday in Florence, Italy, in his 62d year. He lived in Southern France and Italy.
Mr. Goelet was one of the 10th generation to bear the name Goelet. He was a descendant of Jacobus Goelet, who was brought to New Netherlands, as the city was then called, in 1676 from the Netherlands, where his father, Francis Goelet, had gone from France as a Huguenot refugee.
Ogden Goelet's father, Robert Goelet, financier and real estate developer, who was a leader in social circles here and in Newport, R. I., for many years, died in 1966. The father's wealth was variously reported as between $50-million and $70-million. The Goelet holdings were said at one time to have included 55 acres stretching along the East Side from Union Square to 48th Street.
Ogden Goelet's mother was the late Marie Elsie Whelen Clews. His parents were divorced in 1914. He was a grand-nephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and of the late Lady Herbert, who was the wife of the late Sir Michael Herbert, one-time British Ambassador to the United States. The late Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe of Roxburghshire, Scotland, was an aunt."
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Royal: Edward VII (1902-1910)
To Commemorate: Food & Drink
Type: Menus
Royalty: UK Royalty
Year: 1891
Theme: Royalty
Features: Antique
Country of Origin: France
Vintage: Yes