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Among yard sales of the rich and famous, this is one to watch. Next week Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis hopes to raise about $8 million at a Sotheby's auction to be held over nine days in the 500-room palace she calls home in Regensburg, Germany. To make the last payment on taxes of $40 million owed after the death of her billionaire husband Prince Johannes in 1990, the princess, once known for punk and profligacy, is offering a 4,000-lot array of paintings, jewelry, silver, furniture, liveried uniforms and ball gowns, as well...
...Died. Prince Franz Joseph Maria La-moral, 78, who as Duke of Thurn and Taxis was Germany's wealthiest nobleman and the patriarch of one of Europe's oldest families; of a heart attack; in Regensburg, West Germany. The godson of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef and titular head of the clan that introduced the international postal system to Europe in the 16th century, the prince presided over a billion-dollar financial empire that includes Germany's third biggest private bank and vast stretches of latifundia in Bavaria, Canada and Brazil. One of the last Continental nobles...
Their wedding a year ago in Hohenschwangau was played as a Bavarian fairy tale come true. Now it seems that Princess Anna-Maria Elizabeth, 25, prefers a local innkeeper to her husband, Prince Max Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis, 34. The prince, she said, "couldn't fulfill his marital duties." This was too much for Hohenschwangau's silent majority, who took to the streets with placards to register a vote of confidence in the prince's powers and to offer Maria a choice: love him or leave him. She left...
...leukemia in Switzerland in 1926; the events in between are almost ac counted for by the names of the countries he visited or lived in (Germany, France, Russia, Spain, Italy) and the handful of friends he made-the most important of them women. These ladies included the Princess of Thurn and Taxis and the fabulous Lou AndreasSalome, who was his elder by 14 years and who deeply impressed-besides the poet-Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. His love for Lou Andreas was a lifelong though mostly distant affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage...
...Switzerland he attained a sort of civic asylum. Patronesses supplied chalets and chateaux. He completed the Duino Elegies, begun at Princess Thurn and Taxis' castle on the Adriatic near Trieste; she celebrated the event with a ceremonious visit, during which the poet recited the whole work...