On the last day of 1926 Mary of Strasbourg<\/p>\n
Was standing on the balcony of the Royal Hotel in Nice<\/p>\n
The hotel which had been built in 1888 had retained its English name<\/p>\n
As had many other locations in the city<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
May was wearing an evening dress which to many seemed slender and slight<\/p>\n
And not suited to the glamorous occasion within<\/p>\n
Others thought her slightly mad as the wind from the sea was winter cool<\/p>\n
Mary was watching a Bugatti as it disappeared behind the night palms<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In her hand she was holding a fragile silk handkerchief<\/p>\n
She was waving to her lover who was driving back to his home<\/p>\n
The handkerchief had been a gift from a cherished lover<\/p>\n
And she kept it in her splendid bag to retain its soft beauty<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Mary was about to release her wave when her handkerchief broke free<\/p>\n
It floated away on the spice scented breeze into the darkness of the night<\/p>\n
She assumed that it had landed on the thin rose bushes below<\/p>\n
And next day asked the hotel to retrieve it for her but it was never found<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And to this day this remains one of the many unsolved mysteries of the Royal Hotel\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the last day of 1926 Mary of Strasbourg Was standing on the balcony of the Royal Hotel in Nice The hotel which had been built in 1888 had retained its English name As had many other locations in the city May was wearing an evening dress which to many seemed slender and slight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}