Awakening America’s Royal Muse

Thanks to my new computer, alas I was able to open the New York Times archive on the wedding of Flora Sharon to Lord Hesketh. Here is Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Those who decorated Ralston Hall, used the name ‘Flora’ as their theme. There were flowers galore. Briar Rose and Princess Rosamond were raised from the dead. Here is America’s Royal Muse being wed to an English Lord whose great granddaughters have kissed Prince Harry, and have been considered royal mates for the Windsors. But, what is truly amazing, Flora Sharon’s Bridesmaid was Bessie Sedgwick, the kindred of Andy Warhol’s Muse, Edith Sedgwick.

Also present was General Irvine McDowell a close kindred of Jessie and Susan Benton who held Salons on Paris and San Francisco. There is little doubt that my kindred, the Jankes and Stuttneisters, attended this wedding that brought a thousand guests on a special train that also brought…