Editing Lillie Langtry (section)

==Places connected with Lillie Langtry==
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===Residences and historical namesakes===
When first married (1874), Edward and Lillie Langtry had a property called Cliffe Lodge in [[Southampton]], Hampshire.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dudley|first=Ernest|title=The Gilded Lily|year=1958|publisher=Odhams Press Limited|location=London|page=35}}</ref> In 1876 they rented an apartment in Eaton Place, Belgravia, London. From early 1878 they lived at 17 Norfolk Street (now 19 Dunraven Street) in Mayfair, London. Langtry lived at 21 [[Pont Street]], London, from 1890 to 1897, and had with her eight servants at the 1891 census.<ref name="Camp, Anthony 2007 p. 366 " /> Although from 1895 the building was operated as the Cadogan Hotel, she would stay in her former bedroom there. A [[blue plaque]] (which erroneously states that she was born in 1852) on the hotel commemorates this, and the hotel's restaurant is named 'Langtry's' in her honour.<ref name="Rennison 2015 p. 276 " >{{cite book | last=Rennison | first=N. | title=London Blue Plaque Guide: 4th Edition | publisher=History Press | year=2015 | isbn=978-0-7524-9996-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxATDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT276 | access-date=9 June 2017 | page=276}}</ref>

A short walk from Pont Street was a house at number 2 Cadogan Place where she lived in 1899.<ref>{{cite news|title=Langtry's Grand Home|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7229689/langtry_home_in_london_2_cadogan_place|access-date=29 October 2016|publisher=Vancouver Daily World|date=9 September 1899}}</ref> From 1886 to 1894, she owned a house in Manhattan at 362 West 23rd Street, a gift from Frederick Gebhard.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bunyan|first=Patrick|title=All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities|year=1999|publisher=Fordham Univ Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/allaroundtownama0000buny/page/249 249]|url=https://archive.org/details/allaroundtownama0000buny|url-access=registration|quote=362 west 23rd street lillie langtry.|isbn=9780823219414}}</ref>

Langtry's London address from 1916 until at least 1920 was Cornwall Lodge, Allsop Place, [[Regent's Park]]. She gave this address when sailing on the liner ''St Paul'' across the Atlantic in August 1916,<ref>Year: 1916; Arrival: New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897–1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 2485; Line: 8; Page Number: 79; Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820–1957 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.</ref> and the 1920 London electoral register has de Bathe, Emilie Charlotte (Lady), listed at the same address.<ref>Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832–1965 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Electoral Registers. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.</ref>  A letter sold at auction in 2014 from Langtry to Dr. Harvey dated 1918 is also headed with this address.<ref>{{cite web|title=ONE PAGE LETTER FROM LILLIE LANGTRY ON HEADED|url=https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/frasers-autographs/catalogue-id-srfr10000/lot-86932824-dfc1-48c8-8314-a3ff00c58748|website=The Saleroom|date=11 December 2014 |access-date=21 January 2017}}</ref> Langtry was a cousin of local politician Philip Le Breton, pioneer for the preservation of Hampstead Heath, whose wife was [[Anna Letitia Le Breton|Anna Letitia Aikin]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hampstead Heath – History |url=http://www.hampsteadheath.net/the-struggle.html |work=See timeline 1870 |access-date=27 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226203816/http://www.hampsteadheath.net/the-struggle.html |archive-date=26 December 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=British History on Line|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22639|work=Hampstead: St. John's Wood|publisher=A History of the County of Middlesex|volume=9|date=1989|pages=60–63|access-date=27 February 2013}}</ref>

There are two bars in New York City devoted to the memory of Lillie Langtry, operating under the title Lillie's Victorian Establishment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lillie's Victorian Establishment|url=http://www.lilliesnyc.com|access-date=16 February 2016}}</ref> 
[[Judge Roy Bean]] named the saloon, in Pecos, Texas, The Jersey Lily, which also served as the judge's courthouse, for her, in [[Langtry, Texas]] (named after the unrelated engineer George Langtry).<ref>McDaniel, Ruel, ''Vinegarroon: The Saga of Judge Roy Bean, 'Law West of the Pecos' '' (1936, Kingsport, Tenn., Southern Publishers) pages 57, 63.</ref>

===Spurious associations===
====Bournemouth====
In 1938 the new owners of the [[Langtry Manor|Red House]] at 26 Derby Road, [[Bournemouth]], which had been built in 1877 by the widowed women's rights campaigner and temperance activist [[Emily Langton Langton]], converted the large house into a hotel, the Manor Heath Hotel, and advertised it as having been built for Lillie Langtry by the Prince of Wales, believing that the inscription 'E.L.L. 1877' in one of the rooms related to Lillie Langtry. A plaque was later placed on the hotel by Bournemouth Council repeating the assertion, and in the late 1970s the hotel was renamed [[Langtry Manor]]. However, despite the hotel's claims and local legend, no actual association between Langtry and the house ever existed and the Prince never visited it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anthony J. Camp - ADDITIONS |url=http://anthonyjcamp.com/page10.htm |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200214180609/http://anthonyjcamp.com:80/page10.htm |archive-date=2020-02-14 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=anthonyjcamp.com |language=en}}</ref>

====South Hampstead====
On 2 April 1965<ref name="Holzer " /><ref name="Looking " /> the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' reported an interview with Electra Yaras (born c. 1922),<ref name="myth " >{{cite news |last1=Bridge |first1=Mark |title=Lillie Langtry and Edward VII's Hampstead love nest 'a myth' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/lillie-langtry-and-edward-viis-love-nest-in-hampstead-a-myth-mcmql2njx |access-date=9 December 2023 |work=[[The Times]] |date=2 June 2021}}</ref> leaseholder and resident of Leighton House, 103 Alexandra Road, [[South Hampstead]],<ref name="Looking " >{{cite web |last1=Weindling |first1=Dick |last2=Colloms |first2=Marianne |title=Looking for Lillie Langtry |url=https://kilburnwesthampstead.blogspot.com/2021/05/looking-for-lillie-langtry.html |website=History of Kilburn and West Hampstead |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref> who claimed in the interview that Langtry had lived in the house and regularly entertained the Prince of Wales there.<ref name="Holzer " >{{cite book |last1=Holzer |first1=Hans |title=The Great British Ghost Hunt |date=1975 |publisher=[[Bobbs-Merrill Company]] |isbn=9780672518140 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcYkEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT24 |author-link=Hans Holzer}}</ref> Yaras claimed that she herself had been visited in the house several times by Langtry's ghost.<ref name="myth " /><ref name="Holzer " />

On 11 April 1971<ref name="Looking " /> ''The Hampstead News'' said that the house had been built for Langtry by [[Lord Leighton]].<ref name="myth " /> These claims by Yaras and later by ''The Hampstead News'' were made in order to suggest an historical importance for the house and support its preservation from the demolition which had been originally ordered in 1965 and revived in 1971.<ref name="myth " /><ref name="Holzer " /><ref name="Looking " /> The claims were supported in 1971 by actress [[Adrienne Corri]], who lived nearby<ref name="Looking " /> and signed a petition,<ref name="no evidence " /> and were publicised in ''[[The Times]]'' on 8 October 1971<ref name="Looking " /><ref name="myth " /> and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' on 9 October 1971.<ref name="Looking " /><ref name="no evidence " /> They were given further publicity by [[Anita Leslie]] in 1973 in a book on the [[Marlborough House set]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Leslie|first=Anita|title=The Marlborough House Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fpkDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22where+she+bought+a+mansion+called+Leighton+House%22 |year=1973|publisher=Doubleday & Co|location=New York|page=69|isbn=9780385014489 }}</ref>

The house was nevertheless demolished in 1971 to make way for the [[Alexandra Road Estate]].<ref name="no evidence " /><ref name="Looking " /><ref name="myth " />

In 2021, published research revealed that the house had been built in the 1860s by Samuel Litchfield and was likely named after his wife's birthplace of [[Leighton Buzzard]].<ref name="myth " /><ref name="Looking " /> Lengthy research into local records by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms revealed no connection whatever with Langtry.<ref name="no evidence " >{{cite news |last1=Foot |first1=Tom |title=Historians say there's no evidence for Lillie Langtry link to Camden |url=https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/historians-say-theres-no-evidence-for-lillie-langtry-link-to-camden |access-date=9 December 2023 |work=[[Camden New Journal]] |date=27 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="myth " />

The persistence of the myth, propounded in a time when stories about the royal family were easy to publicise and received no critical or substantiating research,<ref name="myth " /> resulted in Langtry's name still being in use in some place names and locales in the [[South Hampstead]] area.<ref name="Looking " /><ref name="no evidence " /><ref name="myth " /> These include Langtry Road off [[Kilburn Priory]]; Langtry Walk in the Alexandra Road Estate; and the Lillie Langtry pub at 121 [[Abbey Road, London|Abbey Road]] (defunct since late 2022),<ref>{{cite web |title=Lillie Langtry |url=https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/nw6_kilburn_lillielangtry.html |website=ClosedPubs.co.uk |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref> built in 1969 to replace The Princess of Wales hotel, and briefly called The Cricketers from 2007 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lillie Langtry |url=https://www.pubology.co.uk/pubs/3604.html |website=Pubology |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref> The mythologising also includes The Lillie Langtry pub at 19 [[Lillie Road]] in [[Fulham]] – the road actually took its name from local landowner [[John Scott Lillie]].<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol42/pp322-338 "The Kensington Canal, railways and related developments"]. ''Survey of London: Volume 42, Kensington Square To Earl's Court'', pp. 322–338. London County Council, London, 1986.</ref>