The summer of 1959 returning to Paris after a trip
to Florence, Sienna and Venice. Fernand the chauffeur took the picture.
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One of the best known portraits of Barbara
Hutton taken by the famous photographer George Hoyningen-Huene
in a sari wearing Queen Amelie of Portugal's marvellous ruby
necklace.
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| At a party in Paris before a masked ball in
the fall of 1958. Barbara is wearing the great emerald necklace
that first belonged to Catherine the Great of Russia and later
to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. It was the most important historical
necklace she owned except for her famous pearl necklace that
Queen Marie Antoinette inherited from Anne of Austria. Unfortunately,
she gave the emeralds to her seventh husband and he sold them
separtely. |
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Barbara Hutton at one of her parties at Sidi
Hosni, her house in Tangier, Morocco circa 1968 wearing the
ruby necklace which had belonged to the Queen of Portugal
transformed into a tiarra and two strings of the largest yellow
cultured pearls she bought in Japan in 1959.
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some photographs
that jimmy took
in japan in the '60's
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