Her Serene Highness Princess Ira von Fürstenberg was a great European beauty. Biografija. Following this year’s cancelled event, Michael Eavis has said that his world-famous festival may not be able to go ahead next summer

Diana Vreeland embraced the now 78-year-old as ‘one of the beautiful people’ and Salvador Dalí was desperate to paint her nude, though her husband forbade it. Indeed all the world’s cameras turned on her when, still 15, she wed a man 15 years her ­senior, Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He is a Brazilian industrialist. ‘She had luscious, rosy colouring and a tawny blonde aura and has lived a life that has veered between aristo, jetset and showbiz worlds.’The Fiat heiress was born in 1940 in Rome to sophisticated Austro-Hungarian émigrés and raised at Villa Fürstenberg in Venice, before being sent to boarding school in London to escape the scandal of her mother running off with an Italian count. Ira von Fürstenberg, Actress: J'ai tué Raspoutine.

Beat the literal heat with three films that capture the spirit of summer love. (Virginia Carolina Theresa Pancrazia Galdina von Fürstenberg) Parents. ‘We met in Paris when he was working for Chloé,’ Princess Ira tells Princess Ira – in her time a film star, jewellery designer, Valentino’s PR and an artist – felt a kinship with Lagerfeld.

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I miss him a lot and for a while we had a wonderful time.’ When, in 1987, rumours swirled that Ira and Rainier were to marry, Princess Margaret said rudely: ‘Such a big girl for such a small country.’For a time, one of Princess Ira’s closest friends was the late Karl Lagerfeld, whom she met in the ­Seventies when he was on the cusp of super-stardom. Now a new biography captures her extraordinary life and address book.‘Ira is the epitome of that much misused word “gorgeous,”’ says her friend Nicky Haslam. She is an actress and producer, known for

She is an actress and producer, known for J'ai tué Raspoutine (1967), Dead Run (1967) and The Vatican Affair (1968). He was witty, very outspoken and direct – and he noticed everything.

‘We both loved beautiful things,’ she says, ‘And I liked how sharp he was.