Portrait of Estelle De Broglie, United States (?), circa 1926

Item Overview

Title

Portrait of Estelle De Broglie, United States (?), circa 1926

Date Created

circa 1926

Date

1926

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Estelle Alexander, an American from San Francisco, married French aristocrat François Marie Constant Amédée Robert de Broglie (known as Prince Robert de Broglie) in the early 1900s, after which she was known as (Princess) Estelle de Broglie. They had a daughter, Jassemonde Estelle Siglinde de Broglie. According to newspaper accounts, they gave concerts, with Estelle, a soprano, singing, and Robert conducting the orchestra. The marriage was eventually annulled. Estelle continued to live in France and visited the United States in 1929 intending to regain U.S. citizenship. She died at Auschwitz in 1944, and is identified as "Estelle Alexander 1872" on the Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial) in Paris. In documents, her name is sometimes given as Estella Dolores Alexander. Photo appears with the article: "CHIEF ATTRACTION FAILS TO APPEAR: PRINCESS SIDESTEPS ON SHOW Mrs. Astor Has to Put on Fashion Event Without Piece de Resistance," Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 1929: 3. In an earlier article: "PRINCE BUILDS TIMEPIECES: Scion of French Nobility, Visiting Here, Heads Works for Manufacturing Electric Clocks," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1926: A8, this photograph is mis-identified as the wife of Robert de Broglie's brother, Jacques de Broglie.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: De Broglie, Princess.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

10 x 12.5 cm.

Medium

b&w glass negative

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs
news photographs
glass plate negatives

Names

De Broglie, Estelle Alexander, 1872-1944

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Singers