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Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough (1807-81) was a superb horsewoman and "the greatest beauty of her day." Jane thought that she could find salvation in "romantic relationships." Divorced by her husband for adultery with an Austrian prince, Jane moved to Paris, bore her princely lover two children, took up briefly with Novelist Balzac ("I have since noted," said he dryly, "that most women who sit a horse well are lacking in tenderness"). From Paris, Jane rode on to Bavaria, became the mistress of King Ludwig I, married a Bavarian baron and bore two more children. Swept off her feet...
Saleswoman, Horsewoman. The new Senator is a remarkable woman. Married at 19 to a blacksmith, she was widowed at 32 with three small sons. To support them, she became a traveling saleswoman, for more than four years fought her way over muddy and rutted Nebraska country roads selling bakery supplies. In 1928, she remarried, and moved on to her husband's Bar 99 ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. She was told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees...
...Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...
Back home at Longview Farm in Lee's Summit, Mo., Horsewoman Combs spends much of her time in her stable, spoiling her horses and making pets of them. A devout member of the Disciples of Christ (she has her own chapel at Longview as well as a half-mile training track), she refuses to compete in a horse event on Sunday. At the National last week, Loula Combs was getting a special dispensation to befit her royal station: "The Garden has been so nice. They haven't scheduled any event of my class on Sunday...
...York Banker Seward Prosser's daughter, Constance, sportswoman and horsewoman. After a fashionable wedding in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Englewood, N. J., they went to live in his medium-size, sandstone house (including a large trophy room) at Rolling Rock. They adopted four children: Richard, now 10; Cassandra, 9; Constance, 8; Seward Prosser...