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The de Meyers' marriage was one of convenience rather than romantic love because the groom was homosexual and the bride was bisexual or lesbian. As Baron de Meyer wrote in an unpublished autobiographical novel, before they wed, he explained to Olga "the real meaning of love shorn of any kind of
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He used the surnames Meyer, von Meyer, de Meyer, de Meyer-Watson, and Meyer-Watson at various times in his life. From 1897, he was known as Baron Adolph Edward
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After the death of his wife in 1931, Baron de Meyer became romantically involved with a young German, Ernest
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an
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wearing a cape over a dress in tulle with an ostrich ruff by
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banking family, and Olga would be the subject of many of her husband's photographs.
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