When the Counts of Barcelona honeymooned in sunny California in 1935, actress Mirna Loy hosted a dinner at her Beverly Hills mansion attended by Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, and Clark Gable, among others. This is confirmed by Javier González de Vega in the memoirs of Juan Carlos I's mother, Yo, María de Borbón (1995).
Let's not forget the Duke of Alba, father of Cayetana, when he also visited Hollywood and mingled with Douglas Fairbanks, or when Gloria Swanson married them for the third time to the French aristocrat James Henry Lee Bailey, Marquis of la Falaise de la Coudraye, who after divorcing the star of Sunset Boulevard (1950), remarried another star, Constance Bennett, who had a leading role in Two-Faced Woman (1941).
Almost a century later, in a way, history has repeated itself. Demi Moore organized a splendid party in New York to celebrate her 62nd birthday, attended by various industry friends like Chloë Sevigny and Tony Goldwin, but the most internationally notable were Olympia and Achileas of Greece, the children of Marie-Chantal Miller and Pavlos of Greece, descendants of the last Greek king, Constantine II of Greece, younger brother of Queen Sofia (86).
Just over five years ago, the Greece-Millers decided to move to New York from London. In the Big Apple, they belong to that almost inaccessible circle of the elite who frequent the best restaurants and the most distinguished apartments on Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue. The mix of kings, princes, artists, actors, writers, or playboys is not new, as in the 1950s and 1960s, they were the dominant figures in the jet set circuit.
In this case, it should be added that Robert Miller, Marie-Chantal's father, Alejandra, and Pia, invested millions of dollars to promote the three young blondes, who managed to marry into some of the best surnames, like Alejandra with a Von Fürstenberg and Pia with one of the Gettys. Also, Princess Theodora - second daughter of Constantine II of Greece and Anne-Marie of Greece and Denmark - moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to pursue a career in film, where she debuted in the soap opera Beauty and Power, which, according to the latest official data as of September last year, has aired over 9,000 episodes.