Family Holiday Drama, 1969

Behind the Photo #3

This photo, taken by Caterine Milinaire, was published in a Greek newspaper in the summer of 1969. I was on a yacht cruise traveling around the Peloponnese, a region in western Greece. This excursion, organized by Alexis Papamarkou, Oppenheimer's President in New York, ended up filled with some royally uncomfortable surprises! 

A few weeks before, while I was in Paris, I had seduced Caterine Milinaire, a journalist, photographer, and the beautiful daughter of Nicole Russell, the Duchess of Bedford. Caterine was the key to my invitation, and on that cruise ship, I became acquainted with the Duchess of Bedford, her husband Ian Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford, Prince Bertil Bernadotte, Duke of Halland, his wife, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, and film director Terence Young, along with his wife and others. 

The capital defect of the gorgeous wooden yacht our host had chartered, which had unfortunately been overlooked, was