Lola montez biography of donald
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Lola Montez
Lola Montez,(Dolores Eliza Gilbert) (1818-1861) Born into an Irish family, but of uncertain parentage, she won fame as a dancer and adventuress.
She took a Spanish name to enhance her professional image as an Andalusian-Moorish dancer.
Lola montez biography of donald
After continental successes on stage and in the hearts of numerous admirers, she arrived in Munich in 1846 where she captured another heart, that of the 61-year-old King of Bavaria, Ludwig I, who was himself both an eccentric monarch and a notorious ladies' man.
Lavish in his expenditures on art, including his well known Gallery of Beauties, Ludwig was thrifty elsewhere. His taxes and reactionary policies had caused discontent among his subjects as early as 1830. His low salaries for civil servants did not endear him to this essential segment of Bavaria's population.
Montez attempted to use her influence with the king to change government policy and to improve her own position in the kingdom. Her first interference in Bavarian politic