Throughout Amalia Kussner's life, besides the luminaries of the NY Gilded Age (such as Mrs. Astor) and the royalty of Europe, there were many other equally interesting people that came into her world. It was beyond the scope of this autobiography to list them all but here is a partial list:
1) Charlotte Knollys, Lady in Waiting to Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII)
2) Princess Sophie, a Lady in Waiting to Czarina Alexandra
3) Mrs. McKinnley (wife to the president)
It was always evident that Amalia had no qualms of dealing with people of weatlh and/or power. She seem to be at ease in any social setting. There was also a "freedom" of sort across Europe, that people of royalty, politicians, those of wealth, would meet at social events and there were no "nationalistic" boundaries at this time. This was all to change irrevocably with the start of WW1.
It was obvious from looking at the hundreds of newspaper articles and some letters to Amalia, that she was a prominent personaltiy during the height of her career, 1892-1910. The lack of her being mentioned later as an artist - I am beginning to think she had a "fall from grace" from the American or British Gilded Age societies. There was every indication that she was a preferred artists of Edward VII, but as I state in her biography, did his passing - then push her aside, with the new more stern regin of George V? More to come on that theme in a future blog.