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Gallery for the safe storage of art works. They would live here for 9 years, their discovery of the house is described by Lady Helena in her autobiography Contacts and Contrasts. During the war, Gleichen organised her estate staff of some 80 men into a private army, whom she taught military tactics
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Prince and Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. But the Queen did not extend that privilege to their children, although she confirmed use of their German style as count and countesses. On 12 June 1913 Helena and her sisters, the Countesses Feodora and Valda Gleichen, were granted
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While her father encouraged his daughters to seek out education and build careers for themselves, her mother was more hesitant. As Lady Helena's father died when she was 18, it took two or three years of convincing before her mother allowed her to go study art at Westminster School.
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studied radiography in Paris and London. After being rebuffed by the British and French War Offices, they went to Italy, where they were given the rank of major in the
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Lady Helena never married, or had any children. She travelled through Europe with Nina Hollings for many years and the two starting living together in 1918 in
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in 1939. Historian Marlene Eilers Koenig, and various others, have claimed that the two were lovers, and in a relationship for more than twenty years.
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in France and Italy, where she was given the rank of major in the army. Her awards for her services included the
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and translator at a British hospital in France. At the suggestion of a French surgeon, she and her partner
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and Arthur Lemon, who both greatly influenced her work. She helped with illustrations for the
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Gleichen headed the 4th Radiographic British Red Cross Unit stationed in the Villa Zucco in
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Women heroes of World War I : 16 remarkable resisters, soldiers, spies, and medics
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Letter from Lady Helena Gleichen addressing the Tate's query of her use of coal
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announced the Queen's permission for Helena's mother to share her father's
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National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II Hardcover
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Gleichen was educated privately, then studied in Rollshoven and at
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Portrait of Lady Helena Gleichen from the Imperial War Museums
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21. Countess Christiane of Solms-Rödelheim und Assenheim
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16. Christian Albrecht, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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OBE
DStJ

OBE
DStJ
World War I
radiographer
Order of the British Empire
Lord Edward Gleichen
Lady Feodora Gleichen
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Queen Victoria
morganatic
Laura Williamina Seymour
Admiral Sir George Seymour
Court Circular
rank
Court of St James's
TSH
precedence
dukes
peerage of England
Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting
Frank Brangwyn
Younghusband Expedition
Tibet
ambulance driver
Nina Hollings
Italian Army

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