click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...

Paul Burrell, her former butler, claims that Diana had hoped to marry a wealthy New York businessman who wanted to become president and believed she could become America's first lady. Although it ...

Lady Butler was born, simply, Elizabeth Thompson in 1846 to a wealthy family. So pretty and delicate, there was no outward clue that she would grow up to be anything more than a text-book ...