The Woman I Wanted to Be (31 page)

My mother, Lily.

One of the two notes tossed by my mother en route to the prison camp in Malines.

Hans Muller, my mother’s longtime companion.

My mother’s remembrance card featuring a note she wrote to herself.

Age nine, in the Belgian resort of Knokke le Zoute.

As a preteen on vacation at the North Sea.

Lady Cortina, my first and only beauty contest, 1967.

At age fifteen, flying solo.

With Lucio, my Italian boyfriend, 1966.

At a pirate-themed party at Brigitte Bardot’s in St. Tropez.

With Jas Gawronski at a party in 1975.
(Ron Galella, Getty image)

With Alain Elkann in New York, 1986.
(Ron Galella, Getty image)

On my wedding day with Prince Eduard Egon von und zu Fürstenberg in Montfort-l’Amaury, near Paris, on July 16, 1969.
(Berry Berenson Perkins)

Egon and I in our Park Avenue apartment in the early 70s.
(Horst, Condé Nast, Corbis Image)