Re: Hope Diamond family connection
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This is where May Yohe's royalty connection can be found. (must use entire URL)
http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal33708http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal33708
Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Henry Francis Hope, Duke of Newcastle-u-Lyme8
Born: 3 FEB 1866
Acceded: 1928
Died: 20 APR 1938
Notes:
The Complete Peerage vol.XIV,p.501.
Father: Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Alexander, Duke of Newcastle-u-Lyme6, b. 25 JAN 1834
Mother: Hope, Henrietta Adela
Married 27 NOV 1894 Divorce 1902 to Yohé, Mary Augusta
Married 27 FEB 1904 to Thompson, Olive Muriel
Child 1: Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Henry Edward Hugh, Duke of Newcastle-u-Lyme9, b. 8 APR 1907
Child 2: Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Doria Lois, b. 17 JUN 1908
Child 3: Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Mary, b. 4 JUL 1910
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From the newspaper clippings:
1.Boston, MAAugust 28 (Sunday) - May Yohe, once a famous actress and one-time possessor of the ill-starred Hope diamond, died early today of heart disease.Announcement of her death was made by her husband, Captain John A. Smuts, a former officer in the British Army, who said she succumbed at 12:30 A.E.D., after being ill less than a day.He said she arose yesterday morning "feeling fine" but was stricken during the day.
Conspicuous in the life of "the gay nineties" and still a maker of sensations in the early years of the twentieth century, May Yohe's vitality, rich contralto voice and careless disregard of convention drew
the attention of four continents.
Born April 6, 1869, in an humble family of Bethlehem, PA., she rose to outstanding popularity on the stage in Chicago, New York, and London and became the bride, November 27, 1894, of Lord Francis Hope, heir to the dukedom of Newcastle and possessor of the famous Hope Diamond, a great blue gem with a sinister reputation for bringing misfortune to its wearer.
There were many references to this legend when the Pennsylvania girl, then an acquaintance of Edward, prince of Wales, before he became King of England, cast aside social position and a future as a Duchess for the love of a young American.She eloped in 1901 from New York with Captain Bradlee Putname Strong, son of a former Mayor of New York.
The couple went to Japan and, after Lord Hope won a divorce in London in 1902, she married Strong.But their romance was short-lived.there were years of separation and finally a divorce given at Portland, Ore in 1910.
In 1914, when the possibility of a reconciliation of May Yohe and Lord Hope was being discussed in London, the second Lady Hope having died, May Yohe married Capt. John Smuts, relative of the noted Boer general and himself a veteran of the Boer war who later served Great Britain in the world war.
That was the only one of her numerous romances which really "took."It endured through years of ups and downs, some of which brought real poverty to the couple in sharp contrasts to the high places which they had occupied in youth."
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2.Boston, MA, August 29
The waters of the Atlantic will be the final resting place for May Yohe, musical comedy star of yesteryear, who once spurned royalty for the love of an American.
Saturday, three days after the cremation of the one-time mistress of the sinister Hope diamond, her third husband will take a boat to sea and "scatter May's ashes on the ocean as she directed."
"She loved nature and open spaces and she abhorred funeral pomp," said Captain John A. Smuts, who married the dynamic star of the nineties in 1914 after she had had successes on the American and English stage and hobnobbed with royalty.She was divorced by her first husband, Lord Francis Hope, and by her second, Captain Bradlee Putname Strong of New York, with whom she eloped.
She died Sunday.
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http://www.preciousgemstones.com/gfwin96one.htmlhttp://www.preciousgemstones.com/gfwin96one.html
Diamonds
Hope Diamond
The most famous diamond in the world, the 45.52 carat blue Hope Diamond, recently was moved from the Smithsonian to
Harry Winston's. It was carried in a leather and suede carrying case by a 40 person SWAT team with UZIs.
Harry Winston plans to refurbish the necklace that holds the diamond, rather than the stone. The plan is to put the diamond in
the new Harry Winston gallery at the Smithsonian in September, 1997. The Hope will be on a revolving stand, and the
Smithsonian wanted to make sure all the links of the necklace were tight.
The Curse of the Hope
In 1642, Tavernier, the famous gem dealer and traveler, brought the French Blue diamond from India. At the time it was a
rough diamond of 112 carats. Tavernier sold the stone to Louis the Fourteenth. He had it recut to a 67.50 pear shape. He died
shortly after he had the stone cut. His mistress, Countess Du Berry, was beheaded shortly after she wore the diamond.
The Hope was passed to Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette, who were also beheaded. It remained in the French
Treasury until the great gem robbery of 1792.
Some believe it was then recut to its present size. The stone appeared in the 1830s and was purchased by Henry Hope, a gem
collector, for $90,000. He died in 1839, and Henry Thomas Hope, a nephew, displayed the stone at the 1851 Crystal Palace
Exposition. In 1887, the wife of Henry Thomas died, and she bequeathed the stone to Lord Hope, her daughter's son.
In 1894, Lord Hope married an American actress. Her comeback proved unsuccessful. Later Lord Hope had to sell the stone
to pay for his financial debts.
In 1908, a Turkish Sultan bought the stone for $400,000. However, because of a revolution, he was forced to return the stone
to Paris for it to be resold.
In 1911, Cartier bought the stone for $154,000 and sold it to Washington socialite Evelyn Walsh McLean. She was the wife of
Edward McLean, the owner of the Washington Post. She was beset with tragedy. She lost her son in a car crash, her husband
died, and her daughter overdosed on sleeping pills. The stone was eventually sold to Harry Winston for $179,920 in 1947. He
donated the stone to the Smithsonian in 1958. A woman once wrote a letter to Harry Winston begging him to take the stone
back because since he made the gift, the county had fallen apart! The diamond is the most popular exhibit at the Smithsonian.
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