Marriages
Olga Caracciolo was married to:
- Nobile Marino Brancaccio (1852-1920), a Neapolitan nobleman who was a son of Carlo Brancaccio, Prince of Triggiano and Duke of Lustra. They married in Naples, Italy, on 9 May 1892 (civil) and 11 May 1892 (religious), and divorced on 7 June 1899, in Hamburg, Germany. Artist Jacques-Émile Blanche, a family friend, called it "a short and most dramatic union".`
- Adolph de Meyer (1868-1946), a celebrated artist dubbed by Cecil Beaton "the Debussy of photography." They married on 25 July 1899 at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, Cadogan Square, in London. This was a marriage of convenience, as the groom was homosexual and the bride was bisexual; some sources identify her as a lesbian. The de Meyers were characterized by Violet Trefusis—who counted Olga among her lovers and whose mother, Alice Keppel, was Edward VII's best known mistress—as "Pederaste and Médisante" (French for ‘pederast’ and ‘woman who criticizes/maligns ’) because, as Trefusis observed, "He looked so queer and she had such a vicious tongue."
Among her affairs was one with Princess (Edmond) de Polignac, a Singer sewing machine heiress and arts patron, in the years 1901-05.
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