Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity by Cristina MoratóMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A clever Irish girl leaves India and her British soldier behind,changes her name and passes herself off as a Spanish heiress of noble birth--a dancer by profession. Not a drop of Spanish blood, not a bit of talent as a dancer, volatile, at times violent, but beautiful, charming and seductive, Lola Montez forges a path in life that takes her throughout Europe, into Asia and across the ocean to the US. She has many lovers, most incredible of all the King of Bavaria and lives in palaces and small cabins in the wilds of mid 19th Century California. So famous,that though she died at least 40 years before the birth of my parents they knew of her story and told me of her career, though not the details of her personal life when I was a girl in the '50's! Her lifestyle caught up with her when she was only in her '40's and she died in NYC living in modest means since she'd given all the wealth she had away. Her last request? Let Ludvig of Bavaria know she'd died and always loved him. A fascinating story of a woman well before her time
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