Cornelia Guest at her Manhattan office with a portrait of her father, Winston Guest.Credit…Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
Rosamond Guest was named after Fair Rosamond who lived at Woodstock. Her kin, Henry Guest was first cousin of Winston Churchill and was the head of the OSS and may have helped set up the British Defense Staff Washington, and knew Commander Ian Easton, and his wife, Rena Easton, my Muse, who inspired me to author several Bond books because I am kin to Fleming, via my cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor.
“We have arrived at the Blenheim Palace Labyrinth that is at the core of my autobiography ‘Capturing Beauty’ that includes the true story of my late sister, who was the world famous artist ‘Rosamond’.
This morning I watched a video of Anthony being interviewed by Charlie Rose about his book ‘True Colors’. Christine has met a kindred soul. He is the art critic I have been searching for. There was an argument about “manners”. CZ was an authority on this. This is the tip of the iceberg. CZ aspired to be an actress and dated Errol Flynn, as did my mother and aunt, who died not knowing Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor is our kin. Anthony wrote the definitive book on art comingled with the pop and celebrity culture, that Liz trail blazed. I will read ‘True Colors’ so I can ground the success of my late sister in a reputable critique, that, good, or bad, will be an honest one. I would like to interview Anthony.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
His maternal grandfather was Henry Phipps, Jr. (1839–1930), Andrew Carnegie‘s business partner in Carnegie Steel Company.[1] His paternal grandfather was Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne[2] (1835–1914) and his great-grandfather was John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, making Guest a first cousin once removed of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)[3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
The OSS was dissolved a month after the end of the war. Intelligence tasks were shortly later resumed and carried over by its successors, the Department of State‘s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and the independent Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
All Winter Long by Rena Easton
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Be My Guest
Posted on May 24, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Van Gogh – Art Detective
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John Presco
Harvard and California Royalty
When Christine told me……..
I was going to concentrate on the suicide of Frances Minty Sedgewick that sent Edie into a death-spiral. It looks like one Van Gogh sister sold her brother’s work in order to pay for her therapy. Christine Rosamond Benton used money from the sale of her art to pay for three psychiatrists. I am talked about in her bio by Tom Snyder, where it is suggested I am responsible for my best friend’s suicide. Who’s paying for my therapy? Am I seeing the best people – money can buy!
The information is coming fast and furious – as a predicted two days ago. Why are the sister’s letter’s surfacing when the lost Van Gogh appears in the hands of a Warhol Groupie. Antony Haden-Guest was close to Warhol. He is related to Princess Di, and thus Harry and Meghan. Antony kissed Christine Wandel’s hand after she delivered a karate-chop to the artist, Heide Hatry, who should do a portrait of Minty – in human ashes!
“Vincent Van Gogh’s bouts with mental illness are well documented. But a new book makes a startling revelation: that his sister, Wil van Gogh, was able to pay for her own mental health treatment by selling 17 of his works upon his death.
The new book, The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden, which will be published in April, details correspondence between the three Van Gogh sisters; Vincent’s brother, Theo; Theo’s wife, Jo Bogner; and other friends of the family.
The hundreds of letters, which are only in Dutch and have never been published before, are held in the Van Gogh Museum archives in Amsterdam. A senior researcher at the museum, Hans Luijten, describes them as “a real goldmine, with wonderful observations.”
“One by one, we intend to publish them in the near future,” he says.
Vincent Van Gogh, Memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) (1888.) [detail] The Hermitage, St Petersburg. (Photo by The Art Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)The sister, Wil van Gogh, lived a largely unhappy life, and was institutionalized for almost 40 years. “I try all sorts of things and I keep hoping something will get through to her,” another sister, Anna, once wrote in a letter.
Van Gogh, of course, had his own troubles, spending three consecutive stays at hospitals in Arles, as well as a year at an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence the year before his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In his own words, he was afflicted with “a mental or nervous fever or madness.”
“As he became more and more famous and the prices for his paintings went up, he was, in a way, providing for his sisters, even long after he had passed on,” Verlinden told the Guardian.
These days, paintings by Van Gogh routinely fetch millions of dollars, and even the revolver he used to shoot himself sold at auction for $182,000 in 2019. The artist died at age 37, practically penniless.
Children of Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill and Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne of Canford Magna
- Hon. Rosamond Cornelia Gwladys Guest+ d. 2 Dec 1947
- Hon. Corisande Evelyn Vere Guest+4 d. 1 Sep 1943
- Hon. Elaine Augusta Guest+5
- Hon. Frances Charlotte Guest+ b. 22 Mar 1869, d. 24 Sep 1957
- Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne+6 b. 16 Jan 1873, d. 14 Jun 1939
- Hon. Christian Henry Charles Guest+ b. 15 Feb 1874, d. 9 Oct 1957
- Hon. Frederick Edward Guest+4 b. 14 Jun 1875, d. 28 Apr 1937
- Lionel George William Guest4 b. 16 Nov 1880, d. 27 Sep 1935
- Major Hon. Oscar Montague Guest+4 b. 24 Aug 1888, d. 8 May 1958
The evening’s main attraction was a panel discussion moderated by artnet News editor-in-chief Andrew Goldstein and featuring guests Vincent Fremont, a longtime collaborator of Warhol and one of the Founding Directors of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; “Baby” Jane Holzer, a Factory “superstar” who appeared in several of Warhol’s films; and writer Anthony Haden-Guest, the eloquent author and bon vivant who has chronicled his experiences in Manhattan’s elite social circles and art scenes in books like True Colors.
ARTnews Ltd., which publishes these pages, announced today that it has hired Vincent Fremont as its new CEO. Fremont helped found the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts after the artist’s death in 1987, and served as its sales agent from 1991 to 2010. He had previously been vice president of Andy Warhol Enterprises and executive manager of Warhol’s studio.
Vincent Fremont on Andy Warhol: He was an energy force » Urban Milwaukee
He told the Armchair Expert podcast: “I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers.”
However, his seemingly off-the-cuff remark triggered a furious backlash from right-wing commentators, including Sean Hannity.
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CZ and Anthony Haden Guest
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“The Guests are from real patrician stock, unlike the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, who are descended from crooks.”
Definition of patrician1 : a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome
2 a : a person of high birth : aristocrat
- one of the most nobly born of English patricians
- —Sam Schulman
b : a person of breeding and cultivation
- a tall patrician … who looked as if she was accustomed to serving on boards and making important decisions
- —J. A. Michener
I have looked a lot of family trees, and knew one day I would come upon a statement like the one above. Here is C’s family tree.
After taking her hand and placing it on the cheek of Heidi Hatry, then – giving it a shove – Christine Wandel became aware of man standing nearby with a dropped jaw! This jaw belongs to Anthony Haden Guest who is kin to CZ Guest, who just may be the most titled person in American history. Her daughter is kin to William and Harry Windsor thru their mother, Princess Diana Spencer, and Winston Churchill. CZ is in the peerage, as are her parents. But what is astounding, the linage of her father is not followed. CZ descends from the Douglas Earls of Agnus, and may have Stewart and Tudor blood in her veins. If so, this would have put CZ in line to the throne of England – if she was a British citizen. Who disowned, who? These are more than Boston Brahmans. Christine is a Boston Blueblood, and she reminds me of CZ, who I think was an Enlightened Woman. I believe she is Monica in my unfinished masterpiece ‘The Gideon Computer’.
So, Anthony is staring at Christine, who says to her;
“No one has been possessive of me like this!”
He is suggesting this might be a good idea – brought back. Anthony asks C’s name, she gives it, and adds;
“I am from Boston.”
Anthony lights up with this information, takes C’s hand, and kisses it!
We have arrived at the Blenheim Palace Labyrinth that is at the core of my autobiography ‘Capturing Beauty’ that includes the true story of my late sister, who was the world famous artist ‘Rosamond’.
This morning I watched a video of Anthony being interviewed by Charlie Rose about his book ‘True Colors’. Christine has met a kindred soul. He is the art critic I have been searching for. There was an argument about “manners”. CZ was an authority on this. This is the tip of the iceberg. CZ aspired to be an actress and dated Errol Flynn, as did my mother and aunt, who died not knowing Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor is our kin. Anthony wrote the definitive book on art comingled with the pop and celebrity culture, that Liz trail blazed. I will read ‘True Colors’ so I can ground the success of my late sister in a reputable critique, that, good, or bad, will be an honest one. I would like to interview Anthony.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
“I’m very intuitive, very sensitive to people,” C.Z. Guest says. “I have good judgment and common sense. I know the difference between right and wrong. Being what I am has helped me. I think manners are the most important thing in life. How you treat each other. That’s very important. To have respect, consideration. Goodness. I’ve been married to the same man for 30 years and manners have been very important in keeping us together.”
Manners have to be taught, the same way right and wrong have to be taught and there lies the crux of C.Z. Guest’s thesis.
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https://charlierose.com/videos/7805
Born in Paris, Haden-Guest is the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a United Nations diplomat who later became 4th Baron Haden-Guest. His mother was Elisabeth Haden-Guest, née Louise Ruth Wolpert. As Haden-Guest was born before his parents’ marriage, upon his father’s death the peerage passed to his younger half-brother, Christopher Guest, a comedian, actor, writer, director, musician and Grammy Award-winning composer.[2]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Haden-Guest
Hon. Rosamond Cornelia Gwladys Guest was the daughter of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill.2 She married Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Viscount Ridley, son of Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley and Hon. Mary Georgiana Marjoribanks, on 8 February 1899.2 She died on 2 December 1947.2
Her married name became Ridley. After her marriage, Hon. Rosamond Cornelia Gwladys Guest was styled as Viscountess Ridley on 28 November 1904. She was appointed Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (D.B.E.) in 1918.2
Children of Hon. Rosamond Cornelia Gwladys Guest and Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Viscount Ridley
- Hon. Sally Gwladys Marjorie Ridley2 b. 17 Sep 1900, d. 28 Jul 1983
- Matthew White Ridley, 3rd Viscount Ridley+1 b. 16 Dec 1902, d. 25 Feb 1964
- Hon. Vivien Catherine Evelyn Ridley+2 b. 15 Dec 1906
Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne was born on 29 August 1835 at Dowlais, Glamorgan, WalesG.1,2 He was the son of Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Bt. and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie.3 He married Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, daughter of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane, on 25 May 1868.1 He died on 22 February 1914 at age 78 at Canford Manor, Dorset, EnglandG.4,5,6 He
Hon. Frederick Edward Guest was born on 14 June 1875.2 He was the son of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill.2 He married Anne Phipps, daughter of Henry Phipps, Jr. and Anne Childs Shaffer, on 28 June 1905.1 He died on 28 April 1937 at age 61.2
He gained the rank of Captain in the 1st Life Guards.1 He fought in the Nile Expedition in 1899, where he was mentioned in dispatches.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.)2 He fought in the Boer War between 1901 and 1902.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for East Dorset between 1910 and 1922.1 He fought in the First World War.1 He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1917.1 He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1919.1 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) in 1920.1 He held the office of Secretary of State, Air between 1921 and 1922.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Stroud between 1923 and 1924.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Bristol North between 1924 and 1929.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Plymouth Drake in 1931.1
Children of Hon. Frederick Edward Guest and Anne Phipps
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Military career[edit]
During World War II he served with the United States Navy. He served on mine sweepers and was made head of the Navy section of the Office of Strategic Services in London, England. By the time he left the military in 1946, he had risen to the rank of Commander. He was awarded the Bronze Star and a Legion of Merit, both with combat devices; the Croix de Guerre with star; the Order of the British Empire; the Norwegian Cross[clarification needed], and the Danish Defense Medal[clarification needed].
Political career
In 1960, married for the third and final time to Princess Caroline “Caro” Cécile Alexandrine Jeanne Murat (1923–2012),[11] daughter of Prince Alexandre Murat (1889–1926) and granddaughter of Joachim Napoléon Murat, 5th Prince Murat (1856-1932),[12] She was previously married to American Capt. August Van Hartz in 1945.[13] Together, they had two children:[1]
- Achille Murat Guest,[14] who married Capucine Motte and Judith Wall[15]
- Laetitia Amelia Guest (Oppenheim)[14]
RAYMOND R. GUEST, 84, DIES
HORSE BREEDER, VA. LEGISLATOR
By J.Y. Smith
December 31, 1991 at 7:00 p.m. EST
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Raymond Richard Guest, 84, a horse breeder who won some of the most coveted prizes in the world of racing and who served in the Virginia Senate and as U.S. ambassador to Ireland, died of pneumonia Dec. 31 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va.
In 1962, Mr. Guest won the Epsom Derby in England with Larkspur. In 1968, he won it again with Sir Ivor, who also took the Washington, D.C., International that year. In 1965, Tom Rolfe carried his colors to victory in the Preakness.
In 1975, with L’Escargot, he won the Grand National, the great steeplechase at Aintree, England, and perhaps the most difficult horse race in the world. L’Escargot also was a two-time winner of the Cheltenham Cup, another top prize in British steeplechasing.
Mr. Guest was born in New York City. His father was the Right Honorable Frederick E. Guest, an Englishman, and his mother was the former Amy Phipps, an American steel heiress. He was educated at St. George’s School in Rhode Island, Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., and Yale University, from which he graduated in 1931.
After college, Mr. Guest settled on a farm in Front Royal, Va., and Virginia was his home for the rest of his life. Since 1955, he had lived at Powhatan Plantation in King George, Va., the site of his horse-breeding operations in recent years.
In the 1930s, he and his brother, Winston, were among the country’s top polo players. Raymond Guest also was a noted big-game hunter, having made several safaris in East Africa. His father had a residence in Kenya.
In World War II, Mr. Guest served in the Navy in the Atlantic and on minesweepers and in Europe. He spent a brief period as an aide to John Gilbert Winant, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James. His wartime decorations included the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, both with combat “V,” and decorations from Britain, France, Denmark and Norway.
When he left the Navy, he became a director of the Bessemer Securities company of New York.
He also entered politics and in 1947 he was elected to the Virginia Senate as a Democrat, serving until 1953. From 1959 to 1965, he was a member of the Virginia Fish and Game Commission. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson named Mr. Guest ambassador to Ireland. He remained there until 1969.
He was a trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. His philanthropic interests included Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, to which he donated the Amy Guest wing in honor of his mother.
His marriages to the former Elizabeth Sturgis Polk and Ellen Tuck Astor ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Princess Caroline Murat, and their two children, Achille and Laetitia Amelia Guest, all of Powhatan Plantation; three children by his first marriage, Elizabeth Stevens of Washington, Raymond R. Guest Jr. of Front Royal, who is a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Virginia Valentine of Richmond; and five grandchildren.
CHARLES N. GRYBOSKI
NASA Accountant
Charles Narcyz Gryboski, 51, an accounting official with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Alexandria, died of cancer Dec. 27 at Alexandria Hospital.
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He had worked for NASA since 1970. At the time of his death, he was deputy chief of the accounts and reports branch in its financial management division.
Mr. Gryboski, an area resident since 1965 and Alexandria resident since 1970, was a native of Plains, Pa. He graduated from King’s College in Pennsylvania with a degree in accounting in 1965. He was an Air Force veteran.
Between 1965 and 1970, he worked as an auditor for the General Accounting Office, a self-employed stock market analyst, and a D.C. government accountant.
Survivors include his wife of 23 years, the former Helen Cooper, a son, Michael, and three daughters, Karen, Linda, and Mary Ann Gryboski, all of Alexandria; and two brothers, Gerald, of Plains, and Joseph, of Palmyra, Pa.
Debutante Years[edit]
Cornelia made her debut in the winter of 1981-1982 at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.[5] Her 18th birthday party included author Truman Capote (a childhood friend), Prince Egon von Fürstenberg (1946–2004), supermodel Cheryl Tiegs, John Bowes-Lyon who is Queen Elizabeth’s cousin, Andy Warhol (another childhood friend), make-up artist Way Bandy, heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke, and Jerry Zipkin, a socialite, escort, and confidante of First Lady Nancy Reagan, as guests.[5][6] Capote, a Guest family friend, explained to People magazine why Guest’s soiree attracted so many celebrities, royals, and powerful people: “Cornelia has a No. 1 name. The Guests are from real patrician stock, unlike the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, who are descended from crooks.”[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Guest
Covering a period in which the prevailing artistic fashion has rapidly shifted and when art, money, talent, and celebrity have been confused, a study of the last twenty-five years of the contemporary art world offers vivid portraits of key artists as they strive to fulfill their ambitions. Tour.
Artists, dealers, collectors, auctioneers, critics — seemingly everyone involved with the contemporary art world makes an appearance in ”True Colors,” Anthony Haden-Guest’s devastating account of the art scene during the past three decades, when vested interests supplanted esthetic concerns. The book is top-heavy with revealing anecdotes and names — it sometimes reads like a directory. One must also endure Mr. Haden-Guest’s occasionally irritating prose, punctuated by snappy jargon and ho-hum metaphors. But drawing on his background as a cultural journalist, he proves a valuable guide through an art landscape that acquired ”a heated, garish quality, like the set for a game show.” ”True Colors” may surpass an outsider’s worst suspicions about the ”nonchalant ruthlessness” of ”an art world where all that anybody talked about was money.” ”I really enjoy sales. Sales is a form of conscious control,” says Jeff Koons, a one-time Wall Street broker who became a prominent artist in the mid-80’s. Advising other art dealers on how to handle their clients, Mary Boone suggests, ”Get them into debt. . . . Get them to buy lots of houses, get them to have expensive habits and girlfriends. . . . That’s what really drives them to produce.” There is ultimately a tedious sameness to such candid venality. But in addition to in-depth looks at Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat and their kind, the story is supplemented by a rich variety of stomach-churning reports on artists whose work entails self-mutilation. The grisly extremes some people have stooped to for their 15 minutes of attention suggest they would welcome even the scathing treatment they receive here.
The Family Tree of Fair Rosamomd and Princess Diana have roots at Blenheim palace, as does the Hart family. Though it can not be proven Ann Hart Hull had children from whom Royal Rosamond descends – at this time – my family is forever enjoined to the Legends of Rosamond that abound with speculations. When I connect Rosamond to the Holy Grail, then I will own all these legends that have come into my family in modern times. Fair Rosamond, and the seven Hart sisters, will be forever entwined.
I talked to Christine in New York City last night. It had been almost a year.
Christine grew up in a four story home on Hancock Street on Beacon Hill. Her father was a doctor that had his office on the first floor, and treated the Blue Bloods of Boston. Chris went to the finest schools, and attended Mills College in Oakland California where she majored in Theology. Religion is in her blood.
In looking for Christine Wandel’s ancestors, I found Marie-Louis Wandel who at the time was the Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations from Denmark. I had Christine give her a call. Marie-Louise told Christine all the Wandels lived in a city in Denmark and are kin to a Bishop. After talking to Chris last night, I have found this Bishop, and the city. It is the oldest in Denmark. Johan Wendt-Wandal-Vandel-Wandel was appointed the Bishop of Ribe by King Christian 111 because Wandel was a disciple of Martin Luther, and was with him when he nailed his theses on the church door in Wittenberg.
Johan was a Wend. Vandal (Wenth ell Slavus), Johan – 1541, a Lutheran Reformer and Bishop indicated (on tombstone in Ribe) as born in Goslar. Prince Phillip is the living history of what was set in stone by King Christian the Reformer. King Waldemer IV of Denmark who died in 1375, assumed the official title of “King of the Wends”. This title was used until 1972.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Douglas,_6th_Earl_of_Angus
In 1509, Douglas married Margaret Hepburn, daughter of the Earl of Bothwell. After her death, and that of his father, in 1513, on 6 August 1514 the new Earl of Angus married the dowager queen and regent, Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV, mother of two-year-old James V, and elder sister of Henry VIII of England. The marriage stirred up the jealousy of the nobles and the opposition of the faction supporting French influence in Scotland. Civil war broke out, and Margaret lost the regency to John Stewart, Duke of Albany.
Lucy Douglas “C. Z.” Guest (née Cochrane; February 19, 1920 – November 8, 2003) was an American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon. She was frequently seen wearing elegant designs by famous designers like Mainbocher. Her unfussy, clean-cut style was seen as typically American, and she was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1959.[1]
Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill1
F, #106316, b. 17 September 1847, d. 22 January 1927Last Edited=26 Dec 2012Consanguinity Index=0.0% Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill was born on 17 September 1847.2 She was the daughter of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane.1 She married Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne of Canford Magna, son of Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Bt. and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, on 25 May 1868.1 She died on 22 January 1927 at age 79 at Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, EnglandG.2 She was buried on 26 January 1927 at Canford Manor, Dorset, EnglandG.2
She was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)1 From 25 May 1868, her married name became Guest. After her marriage, Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill was styled as Lady Wimborne of Canford Magna on 30 April 1880. She was Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) (d ) on 22 January 1927.3
Children of Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill and Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne of Canford Magna
- Hon. Rosamond Cornelia Gwladys Guest+ d. 2 Dec 1947
- Hon. Corisande Evelyn Vere Guest+4 d. 1 Sep 1943
- Hon. Elaine Augusta Guest+5
- Hon. Frances Charlotte Guest+ b. 22 Mar 1869, d. 24 Sep 1957
- Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne+6 b. 16 Jan 1873, d. 14 Jun 1939
- Hon. Christian Henry Charles Guest+ b. 15 Feb 1874, d. 9 Oct 1957
- Hon. Frederick Edward Guest+4 b. 14 Jun 1875, d. 28 Apr 1937
- Lionel George William Guest4 b. 16 Nov 1880, d. 27 Sep 1935
- Major Hon. Oscar Montague Guest+4 b. 24 Aug 1888, d. 8 May 1958
She was born on February 19, 1920, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Vivian Wessell and Alexander Lynde Cochrane, an investment banker. Her brother called her “Sissy” and she transformed that into “C.Z.”[2] She dabbled in acting, including an appearance in the Ziegfeld Follies in 1944.
One of Bruce Weber’s collections of photographs of the American super-smart has a sequence about CZ Guest, who has died aged 83. There are her couture clothes awaiting amendment in the sewing room at Templeton, Old Westbury, New York; her puggy, poochy pets; her portrait in oils; and silver-framed snaps of her sharing a joke at half a century of classy society functions.
But the only direct shot of CZ shows just a bejewelled ear, and the flick at the end of her cap of straight hair. She had simplified herself into a logo, and nothing more than that flick was needed to suggest to America this pin-up of old money who had become a respected gardening adviser.
CZ had loved plants ever since she pestered the gardener to her Bostonian family (papa a banker, mama a showgirl) in the grounds of their 40-room mansion. She had her own little garden, with corn, beans, lettuce, zinnias and marigolds. She also had horses: throughout her life, she assumed, said designer Oscar de la Renta, “that everybody had a pony”; she hunted foxes with General Franco, and was trained to compete at equestrian shows. It was the standard Boston Brahmin apprenticeship for matrimony, but she rebelled.
Her brother had called her Sissy, for sister; she adapted it to CZ – pronounced See Zee – and, acknowledged at 17 to be the golden goddess of the Massachusetts north shore, fled for a few flagrant years. She went on stage, first in a local revue, then as a Broadway showgirl in the 1944 Ziegfeld Follies. After heading for California, she studied at the 20th Century Fox studio; she never got into a movie, but figured big in gossip columns, dating, among others, Errol Flynn. She went to Mexico and posed in the nude for Diego Rivera.
Rumour goes that when, in 1947, CZ married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, heir to a steel fortune, his family bought the picture from the Mexico City bar where it hung. Their unBostonian wedding was at the Havana home of best man Ernest Hemingway, a big-game hunting chum of the groom. CZ was, as Guest’s second wife, a perfect match. He was a polo champion, and organised the French racing stables they owned; she ran their stables in Virginia. Nor did “ran” mean waving imperiously at stablehands; she exercised her horses every day, and rode in major shows.
Her jodhpur-clad attitude to clothes was important to the history of American fashion. A sporty, outdoorsy style had developed there since the 1890s: tennis wear, sailing gear and riding clothes were the natural uniform of the upper classes and Hollywood stars, and were copied by everybody. But then the success of Dior’s Parisian New Look in 1947 persuaded American women that high fashion must be unsporting and indoorsy.
On March 8, 1947, she married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, the son of Frederick Guest, who was a son of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, and Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill (daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough) who, through his mother, was a first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, and was a national polo champion.[2][3] Ernest Hemingway was best man at the wedding, which took place at Hemingway’s home in Havana, Cuba. The couple had two children, Alexander Guest and Cornelia Guest. C. Z. Guest was pictured on the cover of the July 20, 1962, issue of TIME magazine as part of an article on American society. [1]
After a horse riding accident in 1976, Guest was asked by the New York Post to write a column on gardening. Her first book, First Garden, was illustrated by her friend Cecil Beaton. Other friends included Truman Capote, Sawai Man Singh II of Jaipur, Barbara Hutton, Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley and William S. Paley, Gloria Guinness and Thomas “Loel” Guinness and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who were the godparents of their children.
Much photographed, she was also painted by Diego Rivera, Salvador Dalí, Kenneth Paul Block and Andy Warhol. [2]
In 1985 she designed a small fashion collection consisting mainly of cashmere sweaters that was introduced at a show of the designer Adolfo Domínguez. In 1986, she expanded her design work to include a limited line of sportswear sold under license, and in 1990 she came out with a fragrant insect repellent and other garden merchandise. [3]
Death[edit]
Guest died on November 8, 2003 in Old Westbury, New York at age 83. A friend was driving her to the hospital after she was experiencing breathing difficulties at home.[2]
Anthony Haden-Guest (born 2 February 1937) is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York City and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books published.[1][2]
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Family[edit]
Born in Paris, Haden-Guest is the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a United Nations diplomat who later became 4th Baron Haden-Guest. His mother was Elisabeth Haden-Guest, née Louise Ruth Wolpert. As Haden-Guest was born before his parents’ marriage, upon his father’s death the peerage passed to his younger half-brother, Christopher Guest, a comedian, actor, writer, director, musician and Grammy Award-winning composer.[2]
A humorous blurb on the back cover of The Chronicles of Now, a book of Haden-Guest’s cartoons published by Allworth Press, reads as follows:[1]
Boring, pompous, and a complete and utter waste of time. I don’t know what my brother was thinking.
—Christopher Guest.
Through Christopher Guest, Haden-Guest is brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The heir presumptive to the barony is actor Nicholas Guest, younger half-brother of Anthony and brother to Christopher.[1]
Career[edit]
Haden-Guest formerly penned a weekend column on art collection for the Financial Times[3][4] His drawings have appeared in the New York Observer and he has contributed articles and stories to the Sunday Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Sunday Times, Esquire, GQ (UK), The Observer, Radar and other major publications. In 1979 he was awarded a New York Emmy for writing and narrating the PBS documentary The Affluent Immigrants.[1][2][5] Wrote Down the Programmed Rabbit-Hole‘ a collection of essays on 1970s corporates.
Haden-Guest frequently turns to upscale Manhattan social life for his subject matter as seen in the following sample of his work from Rolling Stone:[6]
The lead singer had been married to one of those decadent European rich so numerous in Manhattan nowadays—”International White Trash,” as the uncharitable put it—and there was a sizeable splinter group of fashionable uptown faces cruising among the downtown regulars, their expressions mingling curiosity, distaste, alarm. We fetched drinks. Making small talk would have been strenuous … We left. He got into a Maserati the colour of arterial blood. The three of us followed in the rich girl’s Mercedes. Although almost brand-new, it was already dented and scarred by careless driving.
One reviewer said about Haden-Guest’s book The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, published by William Morrow & Co.,[7]
British socialite and writer Anthony Haden-Guest has been a champion party-goer for more than 30 years. There are few people more qualified to lead a reader, as he does in The Last Party, past the velvet ropes and doorman and into the tornado of 1970s disco, drug excess, and excessive sex that was Studio 54. Unlike some of his contemporaries whose memories are dulled by years of hard living, Haden-Guest seems to actually recall many of his experiences at Studio. His book is therefore part personal memoir, part reportage.
Haden-Guest was a guest on Charlie Rose[8] while promoting his book True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World, published by Grove Atlantic.
Personality[edit]
Haden-Guest is known for being humorously irreverent, as seen in the following quote on Gawker.com:[9]
The massive streak of Puritanism in America has reasserted itself, especially amongst liberals. When I moved to New York there were still a bunch of good writers, often half-drunk, but still very good writers. That doesn’t exist any more. Where do they go? They probably go and teach at Bard.
In response to a suggestion that Peter Fallow in the Tom Wolfe novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) was based on British expatriate journalist Christopher Hitchens, Hitchens said that Haden-Guest was a more likely candidate. A website maintained by the University of Kent cites Haden-Guest as the inspiration for Fallow.[2]
Once known for his late-night antics, Haden-Guest was named the winner of Spy magazine’s “Iron Man Decathlon” in 1988 and 1989.
Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest
Peter Albert Michael Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (29 August 1913 – 8 April 1996), was a British United Nations diplomat and member of the British House of Lords. A dancer and choreographer who performed as Peter Michael with the Markova-Dolin Ballet, Ballet Divertissement, Ballet Theatre, Ballet Joos, and the Repertory Dance Theatre from 1935 until 1945, Haden-Guest was a United Nations official from 1946 to 1972.[1] He inherited his title in 1987.
Haden-Guest was the third son of Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest and Muriel Carmel (née Goldsmid), daughter of Albert Goldsmid (Muriel was the 1st Baron’s second wife). Peter Haden-Guest’s father was a convert to Judaism who had later “renounced” the religion.[2][3][4] Haden-Guest’s maternal grandparents were both converts to Judaism, though both were of partial Jewish ancestry.[5] Haden-Guest was an atheist.[6]
Haden-Guest was married twice, his wives being:
- Elisabeth Wolpert (née Louise Ruth Wolpert, 1910—2002), a German-born writer and socialite better known as Elisabeth Furse; she and Peter Haden-Guest married in 1939 and divorced in 1945. They had one child, Anthony Haden-Guest (2 February 1937—)
- Jean Pauline Hindes, whom he married in 1945. They had three children: Christopher (1948—), Nicholas (1951—), and Elissa (1953—).
Upon his death, Lord Haden-Guest was succeeded by his son Christopher, an actor who is married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis. Lord Haden-Guest’s eldest son, New York journalist Anthony Haden-Guest, was born before his parents were married and was thus ineligible for the title.
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield; 19 June 1896[1] – 24 April 1986), commonly known by her second married name of Wallis Simpson and previously as Wallis Spencer, was an American socialite whose intended marriage to King Edward VIII caused him to abdicate his throne.
Wallis’s father died shortly after her birth and she and her widowed mother were partly supported by their wealthier relatives. Her first marriage, to U.S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated by periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce. In 1931, during her second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, she met Edward, then Prince of Wales. Five years later, after Edward’s accession as King of the United Kingdom, Wallis divorced her second husband to marry Edward.
The King’s desire to marry a woman who had two living ex-husbands threatened to cause a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and ultimately led to his abdication in December 1936 to marry “the woman I love”.[2] After abdicating, the former king was created Duke of Windsor by his brother and successor, King George VI. Edward married Wallis six months later, after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor, without the style “Her Royal Highness“. She was instead styled as “Her Grace“, a style normally reserved for non-royal dukes and duchesses.
Before, during, and after the Second World War, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathisers. In 1937, they visited Germany and met Adolf Hitler. In 1940, the Duke was appointed governor of the Bahamas, and the couple moved to the islands until he relinquished the office in 1945. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Duke and Duchess shuttled between Europe and the United States living a life of leisure as society celebrities. After the Duke’s death in 1972, the Duchess lived in seclusion and was rarely seen in public. Her private life has been a source of much speculation, and she remains a controversial figure in British history.
The Maze and Grail At Blenheim Palace
Posted on April 18, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
The estate given by the nation to Marlborough for the new palace was the manor of Woodstock, sometimes called the Palace of Woodstock, which had been a royal demesne, in reality little more than a deer park. Legend has obscured the manor’s origins. King Henry I enclosed the park to contain the deer. Henry II housed his mistress Rosamund Clifford (sometimes known as “Fair Rosamund”) there in a “bower and labyrinth”; a spring where she is said to have bathed remains, named after her. It seems the unostentatious hunting lodge was rebuilt many times
The Spencer family is one of Britain’s most illustrious aristocratic families. This noble family descended in the male line from Henry Spencer, claimed to be a descendant of the cadet branch of the ancient House Le Despencer (died c. 1478), male-line ancestor of the Earls of Sunderland, the Dukes of Marlborough, and the Earls Spencer. Two prominent members of the family were Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Spencers later joined the Churchills upon the marriage of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Lady Anne Churchill, daughter of the most celebrated Duke of Marlborough. From them descends the current line of the Spencer family which was divided into two branches. The senior line are currently the ducal line of the Spencer family who holds the Dukedom of Marlborough. The 5th Duke of Marlborough later changed their surname to Spencer-Churchill to emphasize their descent from the first duke. The junior line are currently the comital branch of the family who holds the title Earl Spencer.
The comital branch of the Spencer family can trace their ancestry to most of Britain’s nobility as well as to most of Europe’s royal houses. The Spencers are direct descendants albeit illegitimate of the House of Stuart, with the family boasting at-least five line of direct descendancy from the Stuarts, and from them, the Spencers can trace their ancestry to other royal houses such as the Bourbons, the Medicis, the Wittelsbachs, the Hanovers, the Sforzas, and the Habsburgs. More-so, the Spencers are one of the very few British noble families to be the heirs body of a once sovereign family, being the senior female-line descendants of John Churchill, the once sovereign Prince of Mindelheim.
Children of Winston Churchill and Mary Caroline d’Erlanger
Lieutenant Randolph Leonard Churchill+1 b. 22 Jan 1965
Jennie Spencer Churchill+1 b. 25 Sep 1966
Marina Spencer Churchill+1 b. 11 Sep 1967
John Gerard Averell Spencer-Churchill+1 b. 27 Aug 1975
The House of Windsor has been teetering on its weak foundation due to the world looking at the death of Princess Diana. Putting Kate Duchess of Cambridge next to Diana, is problematic for many reasons. However, when you put these three royal woman next to one another, and add the New York History of the Brevoort, Macomb, and Jerome families, then, it is easy declare Diana and her Sons, an Honorary Sovereigns of Detroit and New York. Make it so!
Above is the Chateau de Navarre owned by a woman who claimed she descends Robert de Navarre and the Navarre Royal Line that descends from Marguerite de Navarre ‘The Mother of the Renaissance’ . This lineage is contested, Many are. Should the ancestors of Robert Brevoort be declared delusional – and insane? I will be laying down the blueprint for a New Renaissance between Britain and the United States that will carry forth the Vision of Winston Churchill, and Franklin Delanore Roosevelt, the Democrat.
The home of Alexander Macomb was the first White House. We see a stylized painting of the interior of this home located on 39 Broadway. There is an arch that is symbolic of the Washington Square Arch, from where Artists Actors declared Greenwich Village a Sovereign Nation. Let us install a statue of Diana, there. Another statue of the Princess will be put on Dark Island.
Jon Gregory Presco ‘The Nazarite Prophet’
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The Spencer family is one of Britain’s preeminent aristocratic families. Over time, several family members have been made knights, baronets, and peers. Hereditary titles held by the Spencers include the dukedom of Marlborough, the earldoms of Sunderland and Spencer, and the Churchill viscountcy. Two prominent members of the family during the 20th century were Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_family
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The Benton-Getty Art Dynasty
Posted on June 21, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I will be sending Governor Gavin Newsom a Cultural Package informing him how to FIGHT the Fake Small Government Governor of Florida. Desantos is merging as the leader of – OTHER GOVERNMENT – that has a manufactured culture bent on overthrowing our traditional culture.
Gavin Newsom For The Arts
Posted on May 12, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
On cue, Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference and announced massive aide for the Homeless and The Arts. I had just sent my business proposal to the City Government of Belmont, who have no Arts Program that I am aware of. I had talked with a friend about getting Grace Slick to do paintings in Charlatan Square as part of my Cultural Package for the Belmont that needs to get the Governor’s attention, being, I am kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, as is Belmont Pioneer, Carl Janke. Michael Wilding married Aileen Getty, and thus Carl Janke is in the Getty Family Tree. This Getty Tree For The Arts adopted Gavin when he was a teenager. The J. Paul Getty father and son moved to England. Junior was Knighted by the Queen and was titled “Sir” after he became a British subject. Liz Taylor was Knighted by the Queen for her contribution to the Film Industry that made California great.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works
I have taken steps to be awarded several grants. A year from now, I hope to have my own room at the Getty Villa where I am allowed to roam freely admiring the art of my ex-brother-in-law, Garth Benton, and working on my paper and historic masterpiece………..
‘The Doomsday Prophecies of Wealthy Men’
I will be wearing the best headset money can buy with a endless soundtrack from the DaVinci Code, the Phantom of the Opera, and the best of Leonard Cohen. Young scholars will turn their heads as I pass them in halls.
“May the force be with you Professor Obi-Wan Kenobi!”
“Have you saved our planet yet, Obi-Wan?”
“He can’t hear you. He lives in his own world.”
I have also taken steps to receive a grant from the Paul Mellon foundation. Paul is in my rosy family tree via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and Warner. I introduced the Pre-Raphaelites to Christine Rosamond Benton. We are ‘The Last Pre-Raphaelites’.
I just made an offer to be Drew Benton’s Mentor. I can show her how to be a scholar in a year. Above is her mother at the Getty Mansion in New York.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Benton, Wright, Zorthian, Miller, Eishagaka, and Stackpole
Posted on August 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Rose City Planners
On this day, August 30, 2018, I found, Rose City Planners, a International Company that will pull together the best team of City Planners – possible! During the Great Depression many artists were funded by the WPA to produce civic works of art. Today, our cities have been forever enriched by the work of these magnificent artists who were not out to become famous. They gave way more that they received. Their historic contributions can be added on to, if their common philosophy is understood – and harnessed! These men considered themselves Bohemians.
Many city planners and city governments understand that We The People want our downtowns to have a Bohemian flavor and look. This is the recipe that attracts people. Unfortunately, many city governments are hiring outsiders, Bohemian pretenders, who put the Capitalist Quick Buck Masters at the top, and the artist down at the bottom next to Vegetable Stands. These frauds keep saying they are protecting our city history and founding fathers, but – they lie! When my company gets off the ground we will do a through research to see how much history, and Bohemian Culture was bulldozed into the ground. Much can still be saved – if you know how!
Rose City Planners will reach out to foreign cities, and establish a Cultural Exchange. I am looking for Japanese Investors, and backers for ‘The Royal Janitor’. I founded ‘The Wandering Star Studios. I am poised to take over the work of J.R. Tolkien, also. I will relocate my company to Portland Oregon.
John Presco 007
Copyright 2018
Building The City Beautiful
Posted on June 30, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
On the my last day in Vancouver I heard there is a plan to tear down the last freeway in that city. Here is a video of the Hippie Museum that shows some Hippie fashions:
http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=17961
Here is another blog of mine where I honor Boho fashion.
https://bohemianworlddesign.wordpress.com
Here is the statue Pacifica being blown-up by the Navy:
Ina Coolbrith gave Joaquin Miller his look that he took to England where he read his poems to the Queen. The Pre-Raphaelite Artists took him in. Miller was a friend of my grandmother. The original hippies of the Bay Area were influence by Miller, Ina, London, and Sterling. Miller made a life-size statue of my kin, John Fremont, who looks west from the heights of Oakland. El Capitan looks like Gandalf.
Stackpole’s Bohemian Circle
Posted on December 29, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
Peter photographed my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor for LIFE magazine, and Errol Flynn. who my mother and aunt dated. Ralph was good friends Diego Rivera and his artistic wife. These creative Bohemian souls were the compatriots of David Weston and his Muses. Ralph did a painting of Tina Modotti wearing pearls. David is the model for Frank Rosefish. Errol Flynn is a model for Don Roscoe.
The Roaring Tigers of Art and Literature
Posted on December 13, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) auction on October12, 2014 of 20th Century Modern Design and Fine Art
Thomas Hart Benton did lithographs and a painting for John Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’. This is huge! This puts a Literary Giant in the Benton Family Creative Tree. How could the three Rosamond biographers have missed this? Here’s a huge clue?
I am overwhelmed by the History I appear to be the Caretaker of. For this reason I am founding Royal Rosamond College, and am seeking funding.
There are two world famous artists with the last name BENTON. Thomas Hart Benton, and Christine Rosamond Benton. Not one of the three authors that were blessed by attorney Sydney Morris to publish Rosamond’s biography, put these two artists together in their lying biographies that humiliated Christine, her mothers, and her teacher.
Above is a photograph of a man humiliating one of Thomas’ works of art. People all over the world express their outrage. Wait till they read about Faulkner’s ‘Dunkin The Frog’ that was going to put into the public domain as a Rosamond. Not only is this Art Forgery, it is a direct attack on the Creative Language that Artists speak to each other with – for free!
In two of the three works of art above, we see artists who were members of the Synchromism movement. Stanton Macdonald-Wright did ‘Yin Synchrom’ in 1925, and Thomas Hart Benton did ‘The Rape of Persephone’ in 1939. Is Benton sending a message to Stanton, saying he is beholding to his influence, or, did it just turn out this way in what Carl Jung titled synchronicity? Stanton included Gloria Stuart in one of his murals. Is Stuart’s painting of a nude – with tiger – part of this messaging? Is she saying;
“Don’t leave me out, don’t forget about me – you Bohemian good ol boys!”
The Getty Bond-John Line
Posted on November 12, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Michael Wilding wanted to be an artist when he was a teenager – and became one! Did his wife, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, see her husband’s artwork – and watch him paint? Was Liz reminded of the artist Augustus John, whose house she grew up in? Did she consider promoting her husband’s art like her father and uncle promoted John? Did she see the Getty family promoting the artistic legacy of Christopher Wilding when he became engaged to Aileen Getty? Was Liz and Aileen aware they were kin to Ian Fleming via Talitha Pol who married the Anglophile, John Paul Getty 11, the father-in-law of Christopher? Liz married the son of Conrad Hilton who was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor – who dated J. Paul Getty. Did they talk about being married? Gabor married a prince who ran against Meg Whitman for Governor of California. Did Christopher Wilding meet Gavin Newsom, who is the partner of the Pelosi family in Plumpjack? His mother married Jack Werner.
My late sister, the world famous artist Christine Rosamond Benton, was introduced to Garth Benton, by his friend, Lawrence Chazen, who was our father’s private lender. Vic Presco told Larry his daughter was famous, and he talked about the Benton murals. My sister’s and out father formed a family partnership with the legacy of Vic’s mother who wanted to leave to all six members of my natal family. Vic was surprised when I told him Chazen had formed a partnership in the first Rosamond gallery. Why didn’t Chazen tell Vic? Vic was not happy to learn Larry was the number one creditor in the Probate. Vic dies not knowing Liz was our kin – and Ian Fleming!
With the discovery there is the Welch name John in the genealogy of Samantha Bond, who played Moneypenny, and Rosamund on Downton Abby, and learning Wilding starred in a movie about the Women’s Royal Naval Service, then it appears the limited horizon of these BONDED families has been greatly expanded – by me! I can see – for miles! Time to entrust these collected visions under the banner of Royal Rosamond Press, that has been publishing installment of my Bond book ‘The Royal Janitor’.
Above is the mural Garth Benton rendered for Anne and Gordon Getty. Will an agent come forth and represent my Mystery Muse, who wearing a Cameo, will make a unforgettable extra in a period production, such as Downton Abby. She is British. I can see her in a Naval uniform.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
The Taylor, Getty, and Rosamond Children | Rosamond Press
After his wife’s death in 1907, Augustus John’s mistress Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner; they lived together most of the time from 1904 until his death and had two children, but never married.
- Poppet John (1912–1997), John’s daughter by Dorothy, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988).
- Vivien John (1915–1994) was a notable painter.
Willem Pol’s daughter was
- Talitha Pol (1940–1971) by an earlier marriage to Arnoldine Adriana “Adine” Mees (1908–1948). (Thus, Talitha was step-granddaughter of both Augustus and Dorothy). Talitha was a fashion icon of 1960s London, who married billionaire oil heir, John Paul Getty Jr.
Here’s a fuller look at the Getty family tree as it is known to the public today:
JEAN PAUL GETTY had five children
- George Getty II had one child
- Anne Catherine Getty Earhart had one child
- Sara Earhart
- Anne Catherine Getty Earhart had one child
- Jean Ronald Getty had four children
- Christopher Ronald Getty had three children
- Isabel Getty
- Robert Maximilian Getty
- Conrad Getty
- Stephanie Marie Getty-Waibel had three children
- Marietherese Waibel
- Robert Maximilian Getty
- Sigourney Waibel
- Vanesa Waibel
- Cecile Karin Margarita Getty
- Christina Therese Getty
- Christopher Ronald Getty had three children
- John Paul Getty II had five children
- John Paul Getty III had two children
- Anna Getty
- Balthazar Getty had four children
- Cassius Paul Getty
- Grace Getty
- Violet Getty
- June Catherine Getty
- Aileen Getty had two children
- Caleb Wilding
- Andrew Wilding
- Mark Getty had three children
- Alexander Getty
- Joseph Getty
- Julius Getty
- Adriadne Getty had two children
- Natalia Williams
- August Williams
- Adriadne Getty had two children
- John Paul Getty III had two children
- Gordon Getty had seven children
- Gordon Peter Getty
- Andrew Rork Getty
- John Gilbert Getty had one child
- Ivy Getty
- William Paul Getty
- Nicolette Getty
- Kendalle Getty
- Alexandra Getty
- Timothy Ware Getty
It was a match made in Hollywood: Elizabeth Taylor’s son and oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s granddaughter. But the script had a peculiar twist—Christopher Wilding, 25, Liz’s offspring by her late second husband, Michael Wilding, could only plight his troth to Aileen Getty, 20, under a full moon and over salami and crackers at a cocktail party. There won’t be a wedding for three years because her grandfather’s will stipulates that Aileen will be disinherited (and lose $100,000 annually) if she marries before she is 23.
No matter, Elizabeth clearly dotes on the couple. Leaving her husband, Sen. John Warner, in Washington, she sallied West and rallied old friends. Martin Mull, Sissy Spacek, Roddy McDowell, Carol Burnett and Dudley Moore were among the 150 guests at a formal engagement party held at the Brentwood home of Aileen’s divorced mother, Gail Harris Getty. Timothy Leary showed up, as did Taylor’s mother, Sara, 89, and Aileen’s two brothers—J. Paul III, who lost an ear to Italian kidnappers in 1973, and Mark, in from his British prep school, Harrow.
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