Person:Pauline Potter (1)

Name	Pauline Potter
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	31 Dec 1908	Passy, Paris, France
Marriage	1930	Baltimore City, Maryland, United Statesto Charles Carroll Fulton Leser
Divorce	1939	from Charles Carroll Fulton Leser
Marriage	8 Apr 1954	to Georges Philippe de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild
Death^[1]	8 Mar 1976	Santa Barbara, California, United Statesdied of a heart attack in lobby of Biltmore Hotel
Burial^[1]		Pauillac, Gironde, Franceon the grounds of Château Mouton Rothschild

Research notes

direct descendant of Pocahontas
great-great-granddaughter of Francis Scott Key
due to her parents' frequent separations and divorce, she was brought up in varying degrees of poverty and luxury in New York City, Paris, Biarritz, and Baltimore
educated at a private finishing school in Groslay, a town north of Paris, as well as schools and tutors elsewhere in France and Maryland
after her separation, she was romantically involved with a number of prominent men, including Paul-Henri Spaak (Prime Minister of Belgium), American diplomat Elim O'Shaughnessy (1907-1966), French horticultural heir André Levesque de Vilmorin (1907-1987), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov of Russia (one of the assassins of Rasputin), and producer-director Jed Harris. For a period of years she also was the lover of Isabelle Kemp, an heiress to a New York drug-store and real-estate fortune.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Pauline de Rothschild, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
includes sources, last accessed Sep 2024.

Pauline, Baroness de Rothschild (née Potter; December 31, 1908 – March 8, 1976) was an American fashion designer, writer and, with her second husband, a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry.[1] She was named, with Diana Vreeland, who was added to this list in 1964, to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1969, alongside Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dean Acheson, Angier Biddle Duke, Cary Grant, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...