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Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica 'Nica' de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild; 10 December 1913 – 30 November 1988) was a British-born jazz patron, photographer and writer. A leading patron of bebop , she was a member of the Rothschild family .
Louis de Kœnigswarter (1870–1931) Jules de Kœnigswarter (1904–1995), married to Pannonica Rothschild (1913–1988) Hélène Joséphine Kœnigswarter (1873–1922), married to Gaston Calmann-Lévy (1864–1948) Alice de Kœnigswarter (1878–1963), married to Fernand Halphen (1872–1917) Wilhelm Königswarter (1816–1857)
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990 [1]), was a British scientist, intelligence officer during World War II, and later a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, and an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK.
Koenigswarter is a surname, derived from the Bohemian town of Königswart. Members of the ennobled Königswarter family include: Baron Jules de Koenigswarter; Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, known as the "Jazz Baroness" Baron Louis de Koenigswarter
The title references Pannonica de Koenigswarter's troubles with her stay at the Bolivar Hotel, where her parties would disturb the management of the hotel. [8] It also appears on the posthumous Monk album, Les Liaisons dangereuses 1960, [9] and on Monk's Dream; on the latter release, it was retitled "Bolivar Blues" or "Blue Bolivar Blues". [10]
During the 1970s, Harris lived with Monk at the Weehawken, New Jersey, home of the jazz patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. [12] He substituted for Monk in rehearsals at the New York Jazz Repertory Company in 1974.
A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso XIII in finding them has been published online for war historians and ...
Its cover image depicts Monk as a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War, an homage to longtime patroness and friend Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who had served in the resistance, and whose likeness also appears on the cover. [2]