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'{{redirect|Jersey Lily|a plant sometimes called by this name|Amaryllis belladonna}} {{For|the racehorse|Lillie Langtry (horse)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Lillie Langtry | image = lillie langtry.JPG | caption = Portrait of Langtry by [[Frank Miles]] | birth_name = Emilie Charlotte Le Breton | birth_date = {{Birth date|1853|10|13}} | birth_place = [[Jersey]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|02|12|1853|10|13}} | death_place = [[Monte Carlo]] | spouse = Edward Langtry (1874-1897; divorced)<br>[[de Bathe baronets|Sir Hugo Gerald de Bathe]] (1899-1929; her death) | children = Jeanne Marie (1881-1964) | occupation = [[Actress]] | years_active = }} '''Lillie Langtry''' (usually spelled '''Lily Langtry''' in the United States), born '''Emilie Charlotte Le Breton''' (October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929), was celebrated as a young woman of beauty and charm, who later established a reputation as an [[actress]] and producer. Her looks and personality attracted interest, commentary, and invitations from artists and [[society hostess]]es. By 1881, she had become an actress and starred in many plays, including ''[[She Stoops to Conquer]]'', ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'', and ''[[As You Like It]]'', eventually running her own stage production company. In later life she performed "dramatic sketches" in [[vaudeville]]. She was also known for her relationships with noblemen, including the [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Prince of Wales]], the [[Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury|Earl of Shrewsbury]], and [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]]. She was the subject of widespread public and media interest. ==Biography== Born in 1853 as '''Emilie Charlotte Le Breton,''' Langtry was the only daughter of Rev. William Corbet Le Breton and his wife Emilie Davis (née Martin), who was known for her beauty.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jaynesjersey.com/lillielang.htm |title=Lillie Langtry|work=jaynesjersey.com|accessdate=June 15, 2016}}</ref> They eloped to [[Gretna Green]]<ref>Camp, ''op.cit.'' 366.</ref> and, in 1842, married at Chelsea. Emilie Charlotte was born in the [[rectory]] of [[St Saviour, Jersey|St Saviour]]'s [[Parish Church]] in [[Jersey]] where her father was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] and [[Dean of Jersey]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/> Emilie, the daughter, was the sixth of seven children; all of her siblings were brothers; Francis Corbet Le Breton (1843&ndash;1872), William Inglis Le Breton (1846&ndash;1931), Trevor Alexander Le Breton (1847&ndash;1870), Maurice Vavasour Le Breton (1849&ndash;1881), Clement Martin Le Breton (10 January 1851 &ndash; 1 July 1927), and Reginald Le Breton (1855&ndash;1876). When she died, William was her last surviving brother.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.langtryfarms.com/images/1_history/LangtryHouseBook.pdf|title=The life of lillie langtry|work=langtryfarms}}</ref> One of their ancestors was [[Richard le Breton]], one of the reputed assassins in 1170 of [[Thomas Becket]]. Her [[French people|French]] [[governess]] was unable to manage her, so Lillie was educated by her brothers' tutor. This enabled her to gain a better education than did most women of her day.<ref>{{cite book|last=Langtry|first=Lillie|title=The Days I Knew - An Autobiography|year=1989|publisher=Redberry Press|location=St. John|page=Chapter 1 - Call Me Lillie}}</ref> Their father was the [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] [[Dean of Jersey|of Jersey]], but he earned an unsavoury reputation because of several extramarital affairs. When his wife Emilie finally left him in 1880, he left Jersey.<ref>Anthony Camp, ''Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction 1714&ndash;1936'' (London, 2007) 365.</ref> ===From Jersey to London=== [[File:Lillie Langtry by Millais.jpg|thumb|upright|right|''A Jersey Lily'' by Millais]] On 6 March 1874, 20-year-old Lillie married 30-year-old Irish landowner Edward Langtry, a widower, who had been married to Jane Frances Price. She was the sister of Elizabeth Frances Price, who had married Lillie's brother William.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Odhams Press Limited|location=London|pages=34–35}}</ref> They held their wedding reception at The Royal Yacht Hotel in [[St. Helier]], Jersey. Langtry was wealthy enough to own a yacht, and Lillie insisted that he take her away from the [[Channel Islands]]. Eventually, they rented an apartment in Eaton Place, [[Belgravia]], London before moving to 17 Norfolk Street off [[Park Lane]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Aronson|first=Theo|title=The King in Love|year=1989|publisher=Corgi Books|location=London|page=74}}</ref> In an interview published in several newspapers (including the ''Brisbane Herald'') in 1882, Lillie Langtry said: <blockquote>“It was through [[Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh|Lord Raneleigh]] [sic] and the painter [[Frank Miles]] that I was first introduced to London society... I went to London and was brought out by my friends. Among the most enthusiastic of these was Mr Frank Miles, the artist. I learned afterwards that he saw me one evening at the theatre, and tried in vain to discover who I was. He went to his clubs and among his artist friends declaring he had seen a beauty, and he described me to everybody he knew, until one day one of his friends met me and he was duly introduced. Then Mr Miles came and begged me to sit for my portrait. I consented, and when the portrait was finished he sold it to Prince Leopold. From that time I was invited everywhere and made a great deal of by many members of the royal family and nobility. After Frank Miles I sat for portraits to [[John Everett Millais|Millais]] and [[Edward Burne-Jones|Burne-Jones]] and now [[Frith]] is putting my face in one of his great pictures."<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview with the Jersy Lillie|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=DTN18821003.2.21|publisher=Daily Telegraph, Issue 3507, 3 October 1882, Page 4|accessdate=26 November 2013}}</ref></blockquote> <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Lillielangtry1.jpg|thumb|upright|right|<center>Lillie Langtry – 1899<br />"The Degenerates"</center>]] --> [[Thomas Heron Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh|Lord Raneleigh]], a friend of her father and her sister-in-law, invited Lillie Langtry to a high-society reception, at which she attracted notice for her beauty and wit. In contrast to most women's more elaborate clothing, she wore a simple black dress (which was to become her trademark) and no jewellery.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> Before the end of the evening, [[Frank Miles]] had completed several sketches of her that became very popular on postcards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lillielangtry.com/London.htm |title=Frank Miles Drawing |publisher=lillielangtry.com |accessdate=May 30, 2008}}</ref> Another guest, Sir [[John Everett Millais]], also a Jersey native, eventually painted her portrait. Langtry's nickname, the "Jersey Lily," was taken from the Jersey lily flower (''[[Amaryllis]] belladonna''), a symbol of [[Jersey]].{{Citation needed|date = November 2012}} The nickname was popularised by Millais' portrait, entitled ''A Jersey Lily''. (According to tradition, the two Jersey natives spoke [[Jèrriais]] to each other during the sittings.) The painting caused great interest when exhibited at the [[Royal Academy]]. Langtry was portrayed holding a [[Nerine sarniensis|Guernsey lily]] (''Nerine sarniensis'') in the painting rather than a Jersey lily, as none of the latter was available during the sittings. She also sat for Sir [[Edward Poynter]] and is depicted in works by Sir [[Edward Burne-Jones]]. She became much sought-after in London society, and invitations flooded in. Her fame soon reached royal ears.<ref>{{cite book|last=Leslie|first=Anita|title=The Marlborough House Set|year=1973|publisher=Doubleday & Company|location=New York|page=68 to 70}}</ref> ==Personal life== ===Royal mistress=== [[File:Lilly Langtry, 1885.jpg|thumb|right|upright|August 1885 by [[William Downey]]]] The [[Prince of Wales]], Albert Edward ("Bertie", later [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]), arranged to sit next to Langtry at a dinner party given by [[Allen Young|Sir Allen Young]] on May 24, 1877.<ref>Camp, ''op.cit''., p.364.</ref> (Her husband Edward was seated at the other end of the table.) Although the Prince was married to Princess [[Alexandra of Denmark|Alexandra]] and had six children, he was a well-known [[philanderer]]. He became infatuated with Langtry, and she soon became his semi-official mistress. She was presented to the Prince's mother, [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]. Eventually, a cordial relationship developed between Langtry and Princess Alexandra.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lillielangtry.com/Fame.htm |title=The Girl from Jersey |publisher=lillielangtry.com |accessdate=May 30, 2008}}</ref> The affair lasted from late 1877 to June 1880. Although remaining friends with the Prince, Lillie Langtry's physical relationship with him ended when she became pregnant, probably by her old friend Arthur Jones with whom she went to Paris for the birth of the child, Jeanne Marie, in March 1881.<ref>Beatty (1999), p. 173.</ref><ref name=mistresses>Camp, Anthony. ''Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction: 1714–1936'' (2007), pp. 364–367.</ref><ref>Camp, ''op.cit.,'' 364.</ref> In July 1879, Langtry began an affair with the [[Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury|Earl of Shrewsbury]]; in January 1880, Langtry and the earl were planning to run away together.<ref>[[Laura Beatty]], ''Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals'' (London, 1999), pp. 164–65.</ref> In the autumn of 1879, rumours were published in ''Town Talk'' that her husband would divorce her and cite, among others, the Prince of Wales as [[co-respondent]]. Adolphus Rosenberg was the journalist. He wrote separately about Mrs Cornwallis-West, which resulted in her husband suing him for libel. At this point, the Prince of Wales instructed his solicitor [[Sir George Lewis, 1st Baronet|George Lewis]] to sue. Rosenburg pleaded guilty to both of the charges brought against him and was sentenced to 2 years in prison.<ref>{{cite book|last=Juxon|first=John|title=Lewis & Lewis|year=1983|publisher=Collins|location=London|page=179}}</ref> For some time, the Prince saw little of Langtry. He remained fond of her and spoke well of her in her later career as a theatre actress; he used his power to help and encourage her.<ref>{{cite book|last=Magnus|first=Philip|title=King Edward the Seventh|year=1964|publisher=John Murray|page=172}}</ref> With the withdrawal of royal favour, creditors closed in. The Langtrys' finances were not equal to their lifestyle. In October 1880, Langtry sold many of her possessions to meet her debts, allowing Edward Langtry to avoid a declaration of bankruptcy.<ref name="Jaynes">{{cite web |url=http://www.jaynesjersey.com/lillielang.htm |title=Changing fortunes |publisher=jaynesjersey.com |accessdate=May 30, 2008}}</ref> ===Daughter=== [[File:Langtry deBathe c1915.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Langtry as Lady de Bathe, ''circa'' 1915]] In April 1879, Langtry had an affair with [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]], while she was involved with [[Arthur Clarence Jones]] (1854–1930), an old friend. In June 1880, she became pregnant. Her husband was not the father; she led Prince Louis to believe that he was. When the prince told his parents, they had him assigned to the warship [[HMS Inconstant (1868)|HMS ''Inconstant'']]. The Prince of Wales gave her a sum of money, and Langtry went into her confinement in Paris, accompanied by Arthur Jones. On March 8, 1881, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Jeanne Marie.<ref>Camp, ''op.cit''., pp.364–67</ref> The discovery in 1978 of Langtry's passionate letters to Arthur Jones and their publication by [[Laura Beatty]] in 1999 support the idea that Jones was the father of her daughter.<ref>Beatty, ''op. cit''.</ref> Prince Louis' son, [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], had always maintained that his father was the father of Jeanne Marie.<ref>''Daily Telegraph'', September 27, 1978; ''Evening News'', October 23, 1978.</ref> In 1902, Jeanne Marie married the Scottish politician, Sir [[Ian Malcolm (politician)|Ian Malcolm]] at [[St Margaret's, Westminster]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88756806 |title=MISS LANGTRY'S WEDDING |newspaper=[[Kalgoorlie Miner]] |volume=7, |issue=18437 |location=Western Australia |date=5 August 1902 |accessdate=8 April 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> They had four children, three sons and a daughter. Lady Malcolm died in 1964. Her daughter [[Mary Malcolm]] was one of the first two female announcers on the [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]] (now BBC One) from 1948 to 1956. She died on 13 October 2010 at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/14/mary-malcolm-obituary|title=Mary Malcolm obituary|work=The Guardian | location=London|first=Philip|last=Purser|date=October 14, 2010}}</ref> Jeanne Marie's second son, Victor Neill Malcolm, married English actress [[Ann Todd]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141785842 |title=No title |newspaper=[[The Australasian]] |volume=CXLII, |issue=4,597 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=13 February 1937 |accessdate=8 April 2016 |page=13 (METROPOLITAN EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> They divorced in the late 1930's. Malcolm remarried in 1942 to an American, Mary Ellery Channing.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Channing to wed V. N. Malcolm in Washington|publisher=New York Sun|date=February 5, 1942}}</ref> == Acting career and manager == [[File:As in a Looking-Glass 1887.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Lillie Langtry in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the 1887 play ''As in a Looking-Glass.'']] In 1881, Lillie was in need of money. Her close friend [[Oscar Wilde]] suggested she try the stage, and Lillie embarked upon a theatre career. She first tried out for an amateur production in the Twickenham Town Hall on 19 November 1881. It was a comedy two-hander called ''A Fair Encounter,'' with Henrietta Labouchere taking the other role and coaching Langtry in her acting. Labouchere had been a professional actress (Henrietta Hodson) before she met and married Liberal MP Henry Labouchere. Following favorable reviews of this first attempt at the stage, and with further coaching, Langtry made her debut before the London public, playing Kate Hardcastle in ''[[She Stoops to Conquer]]'' at the [[Haymarket Theatre]]<ref name=NIE>''[[New International Encyclopedia]]''</ref> in December 1881. Critical opinion was mixed, but she was a success with the public. She next performed in ''Ours'' at the same theatre. Although her affair with the Prince of Wales was over, he supported her new venture by attending several of her performances and helping attract an audience.<ref name="Dudley 1958 Chapters 6/7/8"/> Early in 1882, Langtry quit the production team at the Haymarket and started her own company,<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Oldhams Press|location=London|page=73}}</ref> touring the UK with various plays. She was still under the tutelage of Henrietta Labouchere.<ref name="Dudley 1958 Chapters 6/7/8">{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Guilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Odhams Press Limited|location=London|page=Chapters 6/7/8}}</ref> American impresario Henry Abbey arranged a tour in the United States for Langtry. She arrived by ship in October 1882 to be met by the press and [[Oscar Wilde]], who was in New York on a lecture tour. Her first appearance was eagerly anticipated, but the theatre burnt down the night before the opening; the show moved to another venue and opened the following week. Eventually, her production company started a coast-to-coast tour of the USA, ending in May 1883 with a “fat profit.” Before leaving New York, she had an acrimonious break with Henrietta Labouchere over Langtry's relationship with [[Frederick Gebhard]], a wealthy young American.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beatty|first=Laura|title=Lillie Langtry - Manners, Masks and Morals|year=1999|publisher=Vintage|location=London|page=Chapter XXVII Down the Primrose Path}}</ref> Her first tour of the United States (accompanied by Gebhard) was an enormous success, which she repeated in subsequent years. While the critics generally condemned her interpretations of roles such as Pauline in ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'' or Rosalind in ''[[As You Like It]],'' the public loved her. After her return from New York in 1883, Langtry registered at the Conservatoire in Paris for six weeks' intensive training to improve her acting technique.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beatty|first=Laura|title=Lillie Langtry - Manners, Masks and Morals|year=1999|publisher=Vintage|location=London|page=Chapter XXVIII Venus in Harness}}</ref> In 1889, she took on the part of [[Lady Macbeth]] in Shakespeare's ''[[Macbeth]].'' In 1903, she starred in the US in ''The Crossways,'' written by her in collaboration with J. Hartley Manners. She returned to the United States for tours in 1906 and again in 1912, appearing in [[vaudeville]]. She last appeared on the stage in America in 1917. Later that year, she made her final appearance in the theatre in London.<ref name="Dudley 1958 Chapters 6/7/8"/> From 1900 to 1903, with financial support from [[Solomon Beyfus (1820-1893)#Alfred Butt|Edgar Cohen]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198811380 |title=FORTUNE OF FIVE Millions |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Rockhampton)|The Evening News]] |issue=3752 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=14 October 1933 |accessdate=28 March 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Langtry became the lessee and manager of London's [[Imperial Theatre, London|Imperial Theatre]], opening on the 21 April 1901 after an extensive refit.<ref>"Mrs Langtry sold the theatre to Wesleyan Methodists. They later sold [the interior] to the company owning the Royal Albert Music Hall, Canning Town. They reconstructed the theatre stone by stone as the Music Hall of Dockland." (Source: Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury). On the site of the theatre is now the [[Westminster Central Hall]].</ref> ==Thoroughbred racing== For nearly a decade, from 1882 to 1891, Langtry had a relationship with the American Frederick Gebhard, described as a young clubman, sportsman, horse owner, and admirer of feminine beauty, both on and off the stage. Gebhard's wealth was inherited; his maternal grandfather [[Thomas E. Davis]] was one of the wealthiest New York real estate owners of the period. His paternal grandfather, Dutchman Frederick Gebhard, came to New York in 1800 and developed a mercantile business that expanded into banking and railroad stocks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barrett|first=Walter|title=The old merchants of New York City.|year=1863|publisher=Carleton|location=New York|page=132|url=https://archive.org/stream/oldmerchantsnew02scovgoog#page/n133/mode/2up}}</ref> Gebhard's father died when he was 5 years old and his mother died when he was about 10. He and his sister, Isabelle, were raised by a guardian, paternal uncle William H Gebhard.<ref>{{cite news|title=Disposing of Two Million|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0D1EF73C5A137B93CAAB178DD85F4C8784F9|accessdate=9 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=28 June 1878}}</ref> When Gebhard began his relationship with Langtry, he was 22 and she was 29. With Gebhard, Langtry became involved in the sport of [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing]]. In 1885, she and Gebhard brought a stable of American horses to race in England. On August 13, 1888, Langtry and Gebhard traveled in her private car<ref>{{cite web|title=Mrs Langtry's Private Car|url=https://archive.org/stream/jstor-25584133/25584133#page/n1/mode/2up|publisher=The Decorator and Furnisher|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> attached to an [[Erie Railroad]] express train bound for Chicago. Another railcar was transporting 17 of their horses when it derailed at [[Shohola Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania|Shohola]], [[Pennsylvania]] at 1:40 am. Rolling down an {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=on}} embankment, it burst into flames.<ref>{{cite news|title=Wreck on the Erie Road|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-08-14/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1883&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=crash+crashing+embankment+horse+horses+Langtry+Train+train+trained+trains&proxdistance=5&date2=1890&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=langtry&andtext=horses+train+crash+embankment&dateFilterType=range&page=1|accessdate=19 December 2013|newspaper=The Sun - page 5|date=14 August 1888}}</ref> One person died in the fire, along with Gebhard's champion runner [[Eole (horse)|Eole]] and 14 racehorses belonging to him and Langtry. Two horses survived the wreck, including St. Saviour, full brother to Eole. He was named for St. Saviour's Church in Jersey. This was where Langtry's father had been [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] and where she chose to be buried at her death.<ref>''The New York Times'', August 14, 1888, p.33</ref><ref>''The New York Times'', August 15, 1888, p. 20</ref> Despite speculation, Langtry and Gebhard never married. In 1895 he married Lulu Morris of Baltimore. They divorced in 1901.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr Frederick Gebhard to Pay His Divorced Wife a Fortune.....|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1901-10-30/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1836&index=3&rows=20&words=Gebhard+Marries&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=gebhard+marries+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|accessdate=20 December 2013|newspaper=The San Francisco Call|date=30 October 1901}}</ref> In 1905 he married Marie Wilson; he died in 1910.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fred Gebhard Near Death|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00915FE3E5417738DDDAB0A94DC405B808DF1D3|accessdate=7 March 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=22 April 1910}}</ref> [[File:Regal Lodge sale 1919 Bury Free Press 31MAY1919.JPG|thumb|Sale of Regal Lodge 1919]] In 1889, Langtry met “an eccentric young bachelor, with vast estates in Scotland, a large breeding stud, a racing stable, and more money than he knew what to do with”: he was [[George Alexander Baird]] or Squire Abington,<ref>{{cite web|title=Baird, George Alexander (1861 - 1893)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=1246|publisher=Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved worldwide The National Horseracing Museum|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> as he came to be known. He inherited wealth from his grandfather, who with seven of his sons, had developed and prospered from coal and iron workings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bulloch|first=John Malcolm|title=The Last Baird of Auchmedden and Strichen|year=1934|publisher=Privately Printed|location=Aberdeen|page=2}}</ref> Baird’s father had died when he was a young boy, leaving him a fortune in trust. In addition, he inherited the estates of two equally wealthy uncles who had died childless. Langtry and Baird met at a race course when he gave her a betting tip and the stake money to place on the horse. The horse won and, at a later luncheon party, Baird also offered her the gift of a horse named Milford. She at first demurred, but others at the table advised her to accept, as this horse was a very fine prospect. The horse won several races under Langtry’s colours; he was registered to “Mr Jersey” (women were excluded from registering horses at this time). Langtry became involved in a relationship with Baird, from 1891 until his death in March 1893.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lillie Langtry and George Baird of Stichill|url=http://www.bairdnet.com/borders/article2.html|work=Thanks to Stichill Millennium Project|publisher=Bairdnet|accessdate=22 March 2012}}</ref><ref>Camp, ''op.cit''., p.366.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Oldhams Press|location=London|page=128 to 134}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Baird's of Stichill|url=http://www.bairdnet.com/borders/article1.html|work=thank to Stitchill Millennium Project|publisher=Bairnet|accessdate=22 March 2013}}</ref> When Baird died, Langtry purchased two of his horses, Lady Rosebery and Studley Royal, at the estate dispersal sale. She moved her training to Sam Pickering’s stables at Kentford House<ref>{{cite web|title=Pickering, Samuel George (1865 - 1927)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=1150|publisher= The National Horseracing Museum|year=2003 |accessdate=27 March 2013}}</ref> and took Regal Lodge as a residence in the village of [[Kentford]], near Newmarket. The building is a short distance from Baird's original race horse breeding establishment, which has since been renamed [[Meddler (horse)|Meddler Stud]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Oldhams Press|location=London|page=Chapter 14 and Postscript}}</ref> Langtry found mentors in Captain [[James Octavius Machell]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Machell, James Octavius (Captain) (1837 - 1902)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=882|publisher=Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved worldwide The National Horseracing Museum|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> and Joe Thompson, who provided guidance on all matters related to the turf. When her trainer Pickering failed to deliver results, she moved her expanded string of 20 horses to Fred Webb at [[Exning]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Webb, Frederic E (1853 - 1917)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=1229|publisher=Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved worldwide The National Horseracing Museum|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> Told of a good horse for sale in Australia called [[Merman (horse)|Merman]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Allison|first=William|title=My Kingdom for a Horse|year=c. 1917|publisher=E P Dutton & Company|location=New York|page=346|url=https://archive.org/stream/mykingdomforhors00alliiala#page/346/mode/2up/search/merman}}</ref> she purchased it and had it shipped to England; such shipments were risky and she had a previous bad experience with a horse arriving injured (Maluma). Merman was regarded as one of the best “stayers”; he eventually went on to win the Lewes Handicap, the [[Cesarewitch Handicap|Cesarewitch]], [[British Champions Long Distance Cup|Jockey Club Cup]], Goodwood Stakes, [[Goodwood Cup]], and [[Ascot Gold Cup]] (with [[Tod Sloan (jockey)|Tod Sloan]] up).<ref>''The New York Times'', June 15, 1900, p.16</ref> Langtry later had a second Cesarewitch winner with Yentoi, and a third place with Raytoi. An imported horse from New Zealand called Uniform, won the Lewes Handicap for her. Other trainers used by Langtry were Jack Robinson,<ref>{{cite web|title=Robinson, William Thomas (1868 - 1918)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=1089|publisher=The National Horseracing Museum|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> who trained at Foxhill in Wiltshire, and a very young [[Fred Darling]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Darling, Frederick (1884 - 1953)|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=927|publisher=The National Horseracing Museum|accessdate=25 March 2013}}</ref> whose first big success was Yentoi's 1908 Caesarwitch. Langtry owned a stud at Gazely, Newmarket. This venture was not a success. After a few years, she gave up attempts to breed blood-stock.<ref>{{cite book|last=Langtry|first=Lillie|title=The Days I Knew|year=2000|publisher=Panoply Publications|page=Chapter 18 The Races}}</ref> Langtry sold Regal Lodge and all her horse-racing interests in 1919 before she moved to [[Monaco]]. Regal Lodge had been her home for twenty-three years and received many celebrated guests, not least the Prince of Wales.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kentford Village History|url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kentford22/walk_through.htm|publisher=A Forest Heath District Council (Suffolk) Project|accessdate=24 March 2012}}</ref> ==William Ewart Gladstone== During her stage career Langtry became friendly with [[William Ewart Gladstone]] (1809–1898), who was the British [[Prime Minister]] on four occasions during the reign of Queen Victoria. In her memoirs Langtry says that she first met Gladstone when she was posing for her portrait at Millais' studio. They were later friends and he became a mentor to her. He told her, "In your professional career, you will receive attacks, personal and critical, just and unjust. Bear them, never reply, and, above all, never rush into print to explain or defend yourself".<ref>{{cite book|last=Langtry|first=Lillie|title=The Days I Knew|year=2000|publisher=Panoply Publications|page=Chapter 10, Young and Optimistic}}</ref> In 1925, Captain Peter Emmanuel Wright published a book called ''Portraits and Criticisms''. In it, he claimed that Gladstone had numerous extramarital affairs, including one with Langtry. Gladstone’s son [[Herbert Gladstone]] wrote a letter calling Wright a liar, a coward and a fool; Wright sued him. During the trial a telegram, sent by Langtry from Monte Carlo, was read out in court saying, "I strongly repudiate the slanderous accusations of Peter Wright." The jury found against Wright, saying that the "gist of the defendant's letter of 27 July was true" and that the evidence vindicated the high moral standards of the late William E. Gladstone.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40761504 |title=THE GLADSTONE CASE. |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=3 February 1927 |accessdate=18 June 2015 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Gladston Case; Verdict Against Capt. Wright|issue=P.14|publisher=The Times|date=February 4, 1927}}</ref> ==American citizenship and divorce== [[File:Lillie Langtry grave St Saviour Jersey.jpg|thumb|upright|Lillie Langtry's grave in [[Saint Saviour, Jersey]]]] In 1888, Langtry became a property owner in America when she purchased a [[Guenoc Valley AVA|winery]] with an area of {{convert|4200|acre|km2|0}} in [[Lake County, California|Lake County]], California, which produced red wine. She sold it in 1906. Bearing the Langtry Farms name, the winery and vineyard are still in operation in [[Middletown, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.langtryfarms.com/pages/1_1.htm|title=Langtry Farms History|work=Langtry Farms}}</ref> During her travels in the United States, Langtry became an [[US citizenship|American citizen]] and on May 13, 1897, divorced her husband, Edward Langtry, in [[Lakeport, California]]. Her ownership of land in America was introduced in evidence at her divorce to help demonstrate to the judge that she was a citizen of the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172400279 |title=Mrs. Langtry's Divorce. |newspaper=[[Telegraph (Brisbane)]] |issue=7700 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=1 July 1897 |accessdate=6 April 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In June of that year Edward Langtry issued a statement giving his side of the story, which was published in the ''New York Journal.''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126248161 |title=THE JERSEY LILY |newspaper=[[Sunday Times]] |issue=604 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=25 July 1897 |accessdate=6 April 2016 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He died a few months later in an asylum, after being found in a demented condition at a railway station. Cause of death was probably due to a brain haemorrhage after a fall during on a steamer crossing from Belfast to Liverpool. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162383324 |title=MR. EDWARD LANGTRY. |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |volume=LIV, |issue=2,925 |location=South Australia |date=23 October 1897 |accessdate=6 April 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>Beatty, ''op.cit''., p.302.</ref><ref>''New York Times,'' October 17, 1897</ref> A letter of condolence later written by Langtry to another widow reads in part, "I too have lost a husband, but alas! it was no great loss."<ref>Letter in the ''Curtis Theatre Collection,'' University of Pittsburgh.</ref> Langtry continued to have involvement with her husband's Irish properties after his death. These were compulsory purchased from her in 1928 under the [[Irish Land Commission#Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland Land Act]], 1925. This was passed after the [[Partition of Ireland]], with the purpose of the government taking ownership of property from the landlords and transferring it to tenants.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAND PURCHASE COMMISSION, NORTHERN IRELAND. NORTHERN IRELAND LAND ACT, 1925|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/369/page/735/data.pdf|website=www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast|publisher=The Gazette|accessdate=6 April 2016|ref=THE BELFAST GAZETTE, JULY 20, 1928. Page 735}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ESTATE OF LADY LILY DE BATHE (Widow), REPRESENTATIVE OF EDWARD LANGTRY, DECEASED|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/377/page/1007|website=www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast|publisher=The Gazette|accessdate=6 April 2016|ref=THE BELFAST GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928.Page 1007}}</ref> ==Hugo Gerald de Bathe== After the divorce from her husband, Langtry was linked in the popular press to Prince Louis Esterhazy; they shared time together and both had an interest in horse racing.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs Lantry to Marry|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C01E0DC1330E333A25756C2A96F9C94669ED7CF|accessdate=25 June 2015|publisher=The New York Times|date=September 25, 1897}}</ref> However, in 1899, she married 28-year-old Hugo Gerald de Bathe (1871-1940), son of [[Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet]] and Charlotte Clare. Hugo's parents had initially not married, due to objections from the de Bathe family. They lived together and seven of their children were born out of wedlock. They married after the death of Sir Henry's father in 1870, and Hugo was their first son born in wedlock – making him heir to the baronetcy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Legitimacy Declaration|issue=Page 5 Column 5|publisher=The Times|date=February 22, 1928}}</ref> The wedding between Langtry and de Bathe took place in St Saviour’s Church, Jersey, on July 27, 1899,<ref>{{cite news|url= http://langtryfarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Life-of-Lillie-Langtry.pdf|title=The Life of Lillie Langtry |publisher=Langry Farms (California U.S.A)|date=2016|accessdate=26 May 2016|page=20|quote=On July 27, 1899, in St. Saviour’s church, she quietly married Hugo de Bathe, 28 years old. She was 46. Her horse, Merman, won the Goodwood Cup for her on that same day. }}</ref> with Langtry's daughter being the only other person present, apart from the officials. This was the same day that Langtry's horse, [[Merman (horse)|Merman]], won the [[Goodwood Cup]]. In December of that year de Bathe volunteered to join the British forces fighting the [[Boer War]] in [[South Africa]], and he was assigned to the Robert’s Horse mounted brigade as a lieutenant. In 1907 Hugo's father died; he became the 5th Baronet and Langtry became Lady de Bathe.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dudley|first1=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|date=1958|publisher=Odham Press|location=London|pages=160–163}}</ref> When Hugo de Bathe became the 5th Baronet, he inherited properties in Sussex, Devon and Ireland; those in Sussex were in the hamlet of West Stoke near Chichester. These were: ''Woodend'', 17 bedrooms set in 71 acres; ''Hollandsfield'', 10 bedrooms set in 52 acres and ''Balsom’s Farm'' of 206 acres. ''Woodend'' was retained as the de Bathe residence whilst the smaller ''Hollandsfield'' was let.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beckett|first1=J. V.|title=The Rise and Fall of the Grenvilles: Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921|date=1994|publisher=Manchester University Press|page=104|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HHq7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA104&ots=PT678S5p_u&dq=Charles%20Rose%20Ellis%20married%20lady%20hardy&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Rose%20Ellis%20married%20lady%20hardy&f=false|accessdate=3 April 2016}}</ref> Today the buildings retain their period appearance, but modifications and additions have been made, and the complex is now multi-occupancy. One of the houses on the site is named ''Langtry'' and another ''Hardy.'' The de Bathe properties were all sold in 1919, the same year that Lady de Bathe sold ''Regal Lodge''. <gallery> File:De Bathe property sale.jpg|De Bathe property sale 1919 - Sussex properties File:Woodend details.jpg|De Bathe property sale 1919 Woodend details File:Woodend photograph.jpg|De Bathe property sale 1919 Woodend photograph File:Hollandsfield Details.jpg|De Bathe property sale 1919 Hollandsfield details File:Hollandsfield.jpg|De Bathe property sale 1919 Hollandsfield photograph </gallery> ==Final days== During her final years, Langtry, as Lady de Bathe, resided in [[Monaco]] whilst her husband, Sir Hugo de Bathe, lived in [[Vence]], Alpes Maritimes.<ref>{{cite news|title=LILY LANGTRYS HUSBAND|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19310626-1.2.22.aspx|accessdate=18 June 2015|publisher=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=June 26, 1931}}</ref> The two saw one another at social gatherings or in brief private encounters. During [[World War I]] Hugo de Bathe was an ambulance driver for the French Red Cross.<ref>The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England. WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls; Class: WO 329; Piece Number: 2324</ref><ref>Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website</ref> After Langtry's death, he remarried on November 26, 1931 in Corsica, to Deborah Warschowsk Henius, a Danish [[lady]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lundy|first1=Darrly|title=Deborah Warschowsky|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p21736.htm|website=The Peerage|accessdate=16 June 2015}}</ref> [[File:Lily Langty Estate Larne Times 18 May 1929.JPG|thumb|Larne Times, May 18, 1929]] Langtry's closest companion during her time in Monaco was her friend, Mathilde Marie Peate, the widow of her butler. Peate was at Langtry's side during the final days of her life as she died of [[pneumonia]] in Monte Carlo. Langtry left Peate £10,000, the Monaco property known as ''Villa le Lys'', clothes, and Langtry's motor car.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beatty|first=Laura|title=Lillie Langtry - Manners, Masks and Morals|year=1999|publisher=Vintage|location=London|page=Chapter XXXIV Fnal Act}}</ref> Langtry died in Monaco at dawn 12 February 1929. She had asked to be buried in her parents' tomb at St. Saviour's Church in Jersey. Due to blizzards, transport was delayed. Her body was taken to St Malo and across to Jersey on 22 February on the steamer ''Saint Brieuc''. Her coffin lay in St. Saviour's overnight surrounded by flowers, and she was buried on the afternoon of 23 February.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Oldhams Press|location=London|page=219 to 220}}</ref> Pictures of the funeral may be viewed at http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Lillie_Langtry ===Bequests=== In her will, Langtry left £2,000 to a young man that she had become fond of in later life named Charles Louis D'Albani; the son of a Newmarket solicitor, he was born in about 1891. She also left £1,000 to Dr A. T. Bulkeley Gavin of 5 Berkeley Square, London, a physician and surgeon who treated wealthy patients. In 1911 he had been engaged to author [[Katherine Thurston|Katherine Cecil Thurston]], who died before they could marry; she had already changed her will in favour of Bulkeley Gavin.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Copeland|first1=Caroline|title=The Sensational Katherine Cecil Thurston: An Investigation into the Life and Publishing History of a 'New Woman' Author|date=2007|publisher=©Caroline Copeland 2007|pages=various|url=http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/2808/1/Copeland.pdf|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> == Cultural influence and portrayals == Langtry used her high public profile to [[Testimonial|endorse]] commercial products such as cosmetics and soap, an early example of celebrity endorsement. She used her famous ivory complexion to generate income, being the first woman to endorse a commercial product when she advertised [[Pears Soap]]. [[File:langtry cartoon.png|thumb|left|upright|Caricature of Langtry, from ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', Christmas 1890: The soap box on which she sits reflects her endorsements of cosmetics and soaps.]] In the 1944 Universal film ''[[The Scarlet Claw]]'', Lillian Gentry, the initial murder victim, wife of Lord William Penrose and former actress, is an oblique reference to Langtry. Langtry's life story has been portrayed in film numerous times. [[Lillian Bond]] played her in ''[[The Westerner (film)|The Westerner]]'' (1940), and [[Ava Gardner]] in ''[[The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean]]'' (1972). Judge [[Roy Bean]], a famous American frontier admirer, was played by [[Walter Brennan]] in the former and [[Paul Newman]] in the latter film, both times as a man with a lifelong obsession with the beauty.{{Citation needed|date = November 2012}} In 1978, Langtry's story was dramatised by [[London Weekend Television]] and produced as ''[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'', starring [[Francesca Annis]] in the title role. Annis had previously played Langtry in two episodes of [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]]'s ''[[Edward the Seventh]]''. [[Jenny Seagrove]] played her in the 1991 made-for-television film ''[[Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)|Incident at Victoria Falls]]''.{{Citation needed|date = November 2012}} Langtry is a featured character in the "tongue-in-cheek" [[western fiction|western]] novel, ''Slocum and the Jersey Lily'' by [[Slocum Westerns|Jake Logan]]. She figures prominently in ''Death at Epsom Downs'' by Robin Paige, the pseudonym of Bill and [[Susan Wittig Albert]], who wrote a series of Victorian novels based on historic people.{{Citation needed|date = November 2012}} Langtry is a featured character in the fictional ''[[The Flashman Papers]]'' novels of acclaimed writer [[George Macdonald Fraser]], in which she is noted as a former lover of arch cad [[Harry Flashman]]. Flashman describes her as one of his few true loves.<ref name="Fraser">{{cite book | last = Fraser | first = George Macdonald | authorlink = George MacDonald Fraser | title = [[Flashman and the Tiger]] | publisher = [[HarperCollins]] | series = [[The Flashman Papers]] | date = 1999 | isbn = 0007217226 | oclc = 62265058}}</ref> Langtry is used as a touchstone for old-fashioned manners in Preston Sturges's comedy ''The Lady Eve'' (1941), in a scene where a corpulent woman drops a handkerchief on the floor and the hero ignores it. Jean ([[Barbara Stanwyck]]) begins to describe, comment, and anticipate the events that we see reflected in her hand mirror. Jean says: "The dropped kerchief! That hasn't been used since Lily Langtry ... you'll have to pick it up yourself, madam ... it's a shame, but he doesn't care for the flesh, he'll never see it" (Pirolini 2010).<ref name="Pirolini">''Pirolini, Alessandro. The Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study'', McFarland & Co., 2010. ISBN 978-0-7864-4358-1</ref> The song "Lily Langtry" is included in a few albums by the folk group, [[New Christy Minstrels]].{{Citation needed|date = November 2012}} In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode, "[[Burns' Heir]]", the theatre in which the auditions are held on Burns' estate is called the Lillie Langtry Theater.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Burns' Heir|episodelink=Burns' Heir|series=The Simpsons|serieslink=The Simpsons|date=April 14, 1994|season=5|number=18}}</ref> Langtry is a featured character in the play ''Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily'' by Katie Forgette. In this work, she is blackmailed over her past relationship with [[Edward VII|the Prince of Wales]], with intimate letters as proof. She, along with friend [[Oscar Wilde]], employ Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate the matter.<ref>{{cite book|last=Forgette|first=Katie|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily|year=2008|publisher=Playscripts|url=http://www.playscripts.com/play/1636}}</ref> == Places connected with Lillie Langtry == When first married (1874), Edward and Lillie Langtry had a property called Cliffe Lodge in Southampton.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Odhams Press Limited|location=London|page=35}}</ref> {{multiple image | align = right | direction = horizontal | header_align = center | footer_align = left | footer_background = | image1 =Blue plaque Lillie Langtry.jpg| width1 = 200 | caption1 = <center>Blue plaque memorial at Langtry's former address, 21 Pont Street, London</center> |alt1=blue plaque commemorating Langtry| image2 =London 21 Pont Street.jpg | width2 = 150 |alt2=exterior of red bricked house, with blue plaque on front wall| caption2 = }} [[File:8 Wilton Place, London 02.JPG|thumb|8 Wilton Place, London]] [[File:8 Wilton Place, London 01.JPG|thumb|Lillie Langtry plaque, 8 Wilton Place]] [[Judge Roy Bean]] named the saloon "The Jersey Lilly", which also served as the judge's courthouse, for her, in [[Langtry, Texas]] (named after the unrelated engineer George Langtry). Lillie Langtry lived at 21 [[Pont Street]], London from 1892 to 1897. Although from 1895 the building was operated as the [[Cadogan Hotel]], she would stay in her former bedroom there. A [[blue plaque]] (which erroneously states that she was born in 1852) on the hotel commemorates this, and the hotel's restaurant is named 'Langtry's' in her honour. From about 1886 to 1894 she owned a house in New York at 362 West 23rd Street, a gift from Frederick Gebhard.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bunyan|first=Patrick|title=All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities|year=1999|publisher=Fordham Univ Press|page=249|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZJfrHHEA7xQC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=362+west+23rd+street+lillie+langtry&source=bl&ots=5d1TXNeZwk&sig=NiAfIzARBoUBL1K8PFavxTZ5Z-U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9F76Uq6-HKuM7Aauw4CgDg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=362%20west%2023rd%20street%20lillie%20langtry&f=false}}</ref> Langtry had a dwelling in Alexandra Road called Leighton House,<ref>{{cite book|last=Leslie|first=Anita|title=The Marlborough House Set|year=1973|publisher=Doubleday & Co|location=New York|page=69}}</ref> possibly demolished in the 1970s to make way for the [[Alexandra Road Estate]]. She is remembered in the area in the name of Langtry Walk and a local pub.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alexandra Road Park Conservation Management Plan|url=http://friendsofalexandraroadpark.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/arp_cmp_final_for_printing_july2012-smallest1.pdf|work=See page 13|publisher=© Sarah Couch Historic Landscapes|accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> There is a pub named after her on the Lillie Road (The A3218), Kensington, London, near West Brompton tube station. Langtry was a cousin of local politician Philip Le Breton, pioneer for the preservation of Hampstead Heath.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hampstead Heath - History|url=http://www.hampsteadheath.net/the-struggle.html|work=See timeline 1870|accessdate=27 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=British History on Line|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22639|work=See paragraph 6|publisher='Hampstead: St. John’s Wood', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 60-63. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22639 Date accessed: 27 February 2013}}</ref> There are a pair of bars in New York City devoted to the memory of Lillie Langtry, operating under the title Lillie's Victorian Establishment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lillie's Victorian Establishment|url=http://www.lilliesnyc.com/|accessdate=16 February 2016}}</ref> ==Steam yacht ''White Ladye''== Langtry owned a luxury steam auxiliary yacht called [[White Ladye - Steam Yacht|''White Ladye'']] from 1891 to 1897. The yacht was built in 1891 for Lord Asburton by Ramage & Ferguson of Leith from a design by W C Storey. She had 3 masts, was 204 feet in length and 27 in breadth and was powered by a 142&nbsp;hp steam engine. She had originally been named ''Ladye Mabel''. In 1893 Ogden Geolet leased the vessel from Langtry and used it until his death in 1897.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mr Goelet Charters White Ladye|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F13FB3F5A1A738DDDAD0994DF405B8385F0D3|accessdate=16 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=14 July 1893}}</ref> It was sold at auction<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs Lantry's Yacht Sold|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20F17FD3F5512738DDDAC0A94D9415B8785F0D3|accessdate=16 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 November 1897}}</ref> to [[John Lawson Johnston]], the creator of [[Bovril]]. He owned it until his death on board in [[Cannes]], France in 1900.<ref>{{cite news|title=Inventor of "Bovril" Dead|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0717FB385A16738DDDAC0A94D9415B808CF1D3|accessdate=18 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 November 1900}}</ref> In 1902/3 the yacht was recorded in the [[Lloyd's Register|Lloyd's Yacht Register]] as being owned by shipbuilder [[William Gray & Company|William Cresswell Gray]], Tunstall Manor, West Hartlepool, and remained so until 1915. Following this the Lloyd's Register records that she became adapted as French trawler ''La Champagne'' based in [[Fécamp]]; she was broken up in 1935.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daussy|first=Jack|title=The cod fishing trawlers Fécampois|year=1991|publisher=Imp. L. Durand & Fils|location=Fécamp|pages=37 to 40}}</ref> ==Bibliography== * Langtry, Lillie, ''The Days I Knew'', 1925. (autobiography) ==See also== * [[John Henry Devereux#225–227 King St. Academy of Music/Riviera Theatre|Academy of Music/Riviera Theatre]] * [[English royal mistress]] ==References== {{Reflist|2}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Lillie Langtry}} * [http://www.lillielangtry.com/ Lillie Langtry Museum on the Internet] * [http://www.jaynesjersey.com/lillielang.htm Lillie Langtry] biography * [http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=68034 Lily Langtry] at the [[Internet Broadway Database]] * [http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=406745 Lillie Langtry] at the [[Internet Broadway Database]] * {{IMDb name|486756}} * [http://www.langtrymanor.co.uk/history.htm History of East Cliff] * [http://edwardianpromenade.com/fashion/the-professional-beauty/ Article on Professional Beauties of the Victorian era] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Langtry, Lillie}} [[Category:1853 births]] [[Category:1929 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century British actresses]] [[Category:Mistresses of Edward VII]] [[Category:Women of the Victorian era]] [[Category:British emigrants to the United States]] [[Category:British stage actresses]] [[Category:British people of Breton descent]] [[Category:Vaudeville performers]] [[Category:Jersey Anglicans]] [[Category:British courtesans]] [[Category:American courtesans]] [[Category:British racehorse owners and breeders]] [[Category:American racehorse owners and breeders]] [[Category:People from Saint Saviour, Jersey]]'