On The Horizon
A lonely heiress finds herself on a cruise around the world. After a year of heartbreaks, will she ever find her happily ever after? December 1931, Barbara Hutton travels on the Empress of Britain on a 4 month world cruise hoping she will find love in the end. She reminisces over the last year and a treasure hunt at Jean Patou’s home with Prince Alexis Mdivani, Princess Louise Van Alen Mdivani, and Elsa Maxwell. Meanwhile divorce proceedings in Latvia are attempted by Edward McLean against Evalyn Walsh McLean and Princess Ava Alice Murial Astor Obolensky against Prince Serge Obolensky. Other people and subjects include: Jean Patou, Prince of Wales, Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, Phil Plant, Latvia divorce, Washington Post, Hope Diamond, Prince Girolamo “Jerome” Rospigliosi, Marian Snowden, world cruise, treasure hunt, reconstructing events, discovering new information and correcting timelines, listener habits, Danish grandmother & heiress, Belle Baruch, Sailing Baruch, Jr., Bernard Baruch Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.
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On The Horizon
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A lonely heiress finds herself on a cruise around the world. After a year of heartbreaks, will she ever find her happily ever after?
December 1931, Barbara Hutton travels on the Empress of Britain on a 4 month world cruise hoping she will find love in the end. She reminisces over the last year and a treasure hunt at Jean Patou’s home with Prince Alexis Mdivani, Princess Louise Van Alen Mdivani, and Elsa Maxwell. Meanwhile divorce proceedings in Latvia are attempted by Edward McLean against Evalyn Walsh McLean and Princess Ava Alice Murial Astor Obolensky against Prince Serge Obolensky.
Other people and subjects include: Jean Patou, Prince of Wales, Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, Phil Plant, Latvia divorce, Washington Post, Hope Diamond, Prince Girolamo “Jerome” Rospigliosi, Marian Snowden, world cruise, treasure hunt, reconstructing events, discovering new information and correcting timelines, listener habits, Danish grandmother & heiress, Belle Baruch, Sailing Baruch, Jr., Bernard Baruch
Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.