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Personal data Lillie / Emilie Charlotte le Breton 


Household of Lillie / Emilie Charlotte le Breton

(1) She has/had a relationship with Admiral Louis Alexander Mountbatten (von Battenberg).


Child(ren):

  1. Jeanne Marie Langtry  1881-???? 


(2) She has/had a relationship with Edward Langtry.


Notes about Lillie / Emilie Charlotte le Breton

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Jersey Lily, a beauty who dallied with many famous men

Her father was the Dean of Jersey, Rev. William Corbet Le Breton who himself was associated with scandalous affairs. Lily's family must have had scandal in its genes since another ancestor was Richard le Breton, who was reported to have assassinated Saint Thomas a Becket. Not only was she a great beauty, like her mother apparently, she was the only daughter, with six brothers, five of whom were older than her. This made her an iconoclast for her era, with her feminine wiles and appeal and her "masculine" drive and education that she shared with her six brothers. She spurned the French governess for her brothers' tutor, and thus was well educated for her gender.
She was known as "Jersey Lily" and considered to be a great beauty. She married her brother-in-law, Edward Langtry, at age 20 but marriage failed to tame her. At age 27 Lily became the mistress of the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, although both were married. Following that affair, she had an affair with the Earl of Shrewsbury and subsequently with Prince Louis of Battenberg, at the same time that she was sleeping with Arthur Clarence Jones. She had a daughter in 1881, claiming that the Prince was the father.
The Actress

She enjoyed a successful career as an actress in England and the United States, beginning in 1881 and extending into the next century with vaudeville appearances up to 1912.
At the Racetrack

Her next lover (1882 to 1891) was Frederic Gebhard, an American millionaire who introduced her to horse racing. They bought thoroughbred horses that they raced in both the U.S. and in England. Langtry's horse Merman, ridden by American Tod Sloan, won the Ascot Gold Cup.
The American, Winery Owner, and Lady de Bathe

Lilly became an American citizen, moving to California and purchasing a winery. She divorced Edward Langtry in 1897 and re-married the younger Hugo Gerald de Bathe who became a Baron and was also an owner and sponsor of thoroughbred horse racing. Although they separated, they lived near one another in their later years, in Monaco.
Lasting Fame as an Iconoclast

Lilly would have right at home in today's celebrity culture and reality shows. Her fame lives on in semi-fictional books, musicals, and movies. Numerous places associated with her or claimed to be associated with her bear the name "Langtry". The history of celebrity advertising counts her as one of the ground breakers.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Lillie / Emilie Charlotte le Breton

Lillie / Emilie Charlotte le Breton
1853-1929

(1) 

Admiral Louis Alexander Mountbatten (von Battenberg)
1854-1921

Jeanne Marie Langtry
1881-????
(2) 

Edward Langtry
1846-1897


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Historical events

Birthday October 13, 1853

  • The temperature on October 13, 1853 was about 10.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
  • In the year 1853: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • January 4 » After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
    • January 19 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
    • February 22 » Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • July 8 » The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
    • July 14 » Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
    • October 4 » The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

Day of death February 12, 1929

  • The temperature on February 12, 1929 was between -18.1 °C and -6.7 °C and averaged -12.7 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
    • January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
    • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
    • June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
    • September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
    • December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.


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