Comments on: Lola Montez

By: Korhomme (@Korhomme)

Korhomme (@Korhomme) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:26:29 +0000

Was in Grange, Co Sligo today. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a blue plaque commemorating Lola’s birthplace.

By: Anna Jackson

Anna Jackson — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:23:37 +0000

Adore her.

By: xerxes

xerxes — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:22:44 +0000

Let me add a few small items.
When King Ludwig I. met Lola Montez, he was 60 years old and she 28. It is true or only embellished, when they met for the first time she showed him a lot of skin. Two days later they were lovers. By the way, he was a womanizer like few others.
Ludwig cared for her financially in an overly generous fashion, even after she had to flee to Switzerland. The total amount he lavished on her, converted in to-days money, was calculated at 2,3 Million Euros. Not bad for two years of companionship.
She loved to antagonize; In Munich, too, she went out smoking cigars in public, one of these cigars is still exhibited at the local town museum. Worse was her behaviour in presence oft he queen (mother of eight) which infuriated the Munich society, which in turn led to his abdication.
IMHO opinion she was incapable of having a intimate relationsship with the other sex. The was a female flying dutchman.
In your comments you mention that Lola is remenbered in modern Germany quite positively. NO, NO, NO. When Lola met Ludwig, Bavaria was still Bavaria, they (very reluctantly) joined the German Reich in 1871, and a few still resent that. The affair Lola Montez was and is wonderful gossip, a soap, but a sad tale of a haugthy, greedy woman and an aging man who had difficulties getting old.

PS. The Sarah Vaughn song is wonderful.

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:47:32 +0000

I've never read the novel, but I have seen the movie starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, with Florinda Bolkan as Lola.

By: Stephen Parkin

Stephen Parkin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:16:58 +0000

The novel “Royal Flash” by George Macdonald Fraser, has a lot about Lola Montez in it; it was where I first heard of her as well. It is very worth reading.

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:34:07 +0000

Thanks, Lujlp! A great video for a classic jazz standard.

By: lujlp

lujlp — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:16:18 +0000

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:06:41 +0000

Very true.

By: lujlp

lujlp — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:14:46 +0000

Well, if she did indeed have a stroke then any such recating would have been more an involentary product of physical tramua to the pathways of her brain then a genuine personal desire to change her ways

By: lujlp

lujlp — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:12:28 +0000

Sociopaths generally dont run that hot and usually have at least some sort of body count.