The Silver Queen
Subtitle: her royal highness Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff, 1859-1942
By: Judy Dykman and Colleen Whitley.
Contributors: Whitley, Colleen, 1940-
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Engalitcheff, Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch, 1859-1942; Socialites -- Utah -- Biography.; Utah -- Biography.
Description: Suzanne Egera Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff gained an H.R.H. before her name via her fourth marriage, to a genuine, if somewhat disreputable, Russian prince. By then she had long been known as the Silver Queen, a reference to the origins of her wealth in the mines of Park City, Utah, that attached to her as she climbed the social ladder of turn-of-the-century high society.

Susie, as friends and family knew her, entertained fabulously at her luxurious houses in Salt Lake City and Pasadena - turning her Gardo House, originally built for Brigham Young's favorite wife, into perhaps Salt Lake's most famous mansion - and became a recognized figure in the social circuit and society publications of the west and east coasts.

She also lost four husbands and a daughter, suffered through headline-grabbing court battles over inheritances, and in an attempt to maintain a passing way of life, ultimately frittered away what wealth the Great Depression did not take.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Where it all began; title: The belle of Plumas County; title: True love and tragedy; title: Photos: Park City; title: The R. C. Chambers affair; title: A decade of adjustment; title: Entertaining in style; title: Photos: the Gardo house; title: The progressive movement; title: The next generation; title: A house divided against itself; title: Three, two, one . . .; title: Photos: El Roble; title: Hard times; title: Here comes the prince, again; title: "To you, my dear Sherrie, I say good bye"; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix; title: Bibliography  .