Though Gloria was also an aristocrat – a countess by birth – her family wasn’t wealthy. But growing up without money didn’t seem to impair her ability to spend it. She and her husband bought huge amounts of art, traveled the glove, and became fixtures of tabloids and glossy mags the world over. They threw wild parties that lasted days; his birthday fete was just one of many held at their massive castle in Bavaria, a stately pile that Gloria once said “makes Buckingham Palace look like a hut.”
In 1985 an interviewer for Vanity Fair magazine dubbed Gloria “Princess TNT, the dynamite socialite” – the name stuck and Gloria more than lived up to it. She barked like a dog on Late Night with David Letterman and got busted for possession of hashish at the Munich airport. She wore sweaters made out of teddy bears and received Holy Communion wearing a witch’s hat. She dyed her hair every hue of the rainbow, wore it in a Mohawk, or teased it up like the plumes of a peacock, earning her the additional sobriquet “Punk Princess,” She rode Harleys and horses, partied with Prince and princes, danced on tables in a Paco Rabanne chainmail minidress, and dressed as a cowgirl for fancy balls.
Source:
McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez. “Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, The Punk Princess Who Went Corporate.” Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories From History-- Without the Fairy-Tale Endings. MJF Books, 2013. 202. Print.
Further Reading:
Prince Rogers Nelson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
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