She Spent only a Little: $250,000 got rid of, in America

It Happened on
July 19, 1910

"The Jewels that sparkled at her throat, on her hands and in the folds of her bodice were not worth ore than $96,000, according to her highness' chamberlain. In fact, said the chamberlain, her higness never wears more than $100,000 worth of gems before lunch."

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Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Her serene Highness - Prolific portraitist of notable Europeans and Americans

Princess Parlaghy Is Pining for Her Zoo Came Over With Only 18 of Her 60 Pets

It Happened on
July 11, 1908

She Has a Retinue Spends $2000 a Week and Is Here to Paint Portraits of Thirty Distinguished Americans

The Evening World, New York, New York, 11 Jul 1908, Saturday, Page 3

When I paint a man…

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William Howard Taft

William Shea


William J. Shea

Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1959 to 1965


Ernest H. Powell

Marshall to Her Serene Highness The Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Francis Furger

Third Attache to Her Serene Highness the Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlagy


Frederick M. Dellus

First Attache and Secretary to Her Serene Highness The Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy


Nixola Greeley-Smith

American journalist


Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Her serene Highness - Prolific portraitist of notable Europeans and Americans