VICTORIAN HAIR PINS

KING ALBERT OF BELGIUM HAS A LOVE CHILD

NEW YORK TIMES : KING ALBERT II OF BELGIUM ACKNOWLEDGES LOVE CHILD

It took a DNA test but Delphine Boel, an artist, has proven that her mother Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps and King Albert II of Belgium are her parents.

EXCERPT:  Ms. Boel, 51, is a Belgian visual artist who has claimed for years that she was conceived during an affair in the 1960's between her mother, Baroness Sybille de Delys Longchamps, and Albert, who was then a prince and married to Paola Ruffo di Calabria, an Italian princess.  Prince Albert and his wife already had three children.

Rumors of an illegitimate child were first alluded to in a 1999 book about Queen Paola by a journalist, Mario Danneels, and Ms. Boel made her first public claim that King Albert was her father in a 2005 interview.

I want a copy!

BABY DOE'S OPERATIC ARIA : BEVERLY SILLS

FIND A GRAVE for BABY DOE aka ELIZABETH BONDUEL MCCOURT TABOR

FIND A GRAVE - ELIZABETH BONDUEL MCCOURT TABOR

Buried in Colorado, this Find A Grace site shows that Baby Doe was one of thirteen children and had three children of her own.  She lived to be 80.

Other sites report the controversy of the parentage of her stillborn son that she had while still married to her first husband.

THE MEAL IS FINISHED

VISITING THE SHACK WHERE BABY DOE TABOR LIVED TILL DEATH

GAZETTE (LEADVILLE) VISITING THE MOUNTAIN SHACK WHERE BABY DOE LIVED AND DIED

Once one of the richest women in the world, for thirty years Baby Doe Tabor lived in what was once a tool shed.  In other references this dwelling is called a miner's cabin on a hill side (Fryer Hill) of the mine that she and her husband once owned, the mine that he told her, when he was on his way out of this world not to sell.

Excerpt: ..."She cut her firewood and lugged her water.  Most nights, she enjoyed and endured extravagant Technicolor dreams, which she chronicled in detail when she awoke.  In those dreams, she met Jesus and the Virgin Mary and demons and deceased relatives.  ... She wore tattered dressed and wrapped her feet in burlap...


From the YouTube posting:  The story of "Baby Doe" and her silver fortune in the late 1800's.  Written and produced by Anya Rose with artistic direction from Stephanie Stewart and intro animation by Alyssa Fong.

HOW DOES THIS MISTRESS STOP HER RELATIVES FROM TRYING TO MATCHMAKE HER?

Question for Missy

Hi Missy,

I'm 37 and have been a mistress for 7 years.  My relatives think that I never meet men, never get asked out, and that I'll never get married and have children unless they match-make me.  They are right.  I never go out to meet other men and I don't accept dates.  I'm fine as I am and not worried about getting married to anyone or having children.  My man has four children, one still at home, and doesn't want more.  So the real problem is that I don't want to tell them why I'm not interested. That I'm in love with a man already.  I met a couple of the men they wanted to introduce me to.  Luckily they weren't that interested in me.  Then I stopped meeting the men they wanted for me but they haven't backed off.  It's both my grandmothers, my mother, and my sister.  It's so ridiculous that they even suggested I meet a 2nd cousin of ours!  They're desperate for me.  I can't stand it.  What do you suggest?


Carol
Bloomington


Answer from Missy

Hi Carol,

I know someone whose relatives all think she's lesbian because she hasn't brought any men around.  She does not protest.

Try not to get defensive. The best thing to do is not talk about it.  Talk about the things that interest you.  Have interests not issues.

I would call them all on the same day and tell them you feel pressured by them as individuals and collectively and that you will no longer be entertaining any of their matchmaking suggestions. If at some other time in your life you are interested in meeting men, you will let them know.  If someone calls you and starts up on this subject after you have told them to cut it out, gently say, "I have to go" and cease the conversation. Say "GoodBye!" and hang up. Be consistent.  They'll eventually get the message.

Missy

TEA FOR ONE

CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING : GWYNETH PALTROW PROVES YOU CAN BE FRIENDS WITH YOUR EX and LOVE HIS NEW WOMAN

HARPERS BAZAAR on GWYNETH PALTROW -RELATIONSHIPS

EXCERPT: "Last summer, photos surfaced of Paltrow and Falchuck (her new husband) with ex-husband Martin (the father of her children and first husband), from whom Paltrow famously "consciously uncoupled" in 2014, and Martin's girlfriend, Dakota Johnson, all palling around on the beach in the Hamptons. When I tell Paltrow that a number of friends DM'ed me that photo at the time, expressing a mixture of excitement, interest, and confusion, she laughs drily, and stresses that her dynamic with Martin continues to evolve.  "It's not like there's a finish line: 'Oh, we consciously uncoupled; we're done.' It's a lifelong commitment to constantly reinvent your relationship with your ex, which you do presumably because you have children together....  (editing is mine)

MISSY'S OPINION:

Among the notable personal life achievements that this celebrity has are: being friendly with all her ex's including the father of her children - and she loves his new woman.  Living separately from the second man she married for some time: Mistresses are used to having residences separate of their men and it's true that some people believe this keeps the spice in the relationship. She sees that everyone getting along as a win-win situation.