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marries the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in North Bengal. A travelling Hindu priest performs the ceremony.
1950
Mid-May 50 is slated to become the Maharani of Cooch Behar in July
August 50 she and her "loaded-with-loot beau," the Maharajah of Cooch Behar are due in the States in mid-September. "May announce wedding plans when they land."
October 50 Inside Hollywood reports: "Keep `em guessing is the current policy of glamorous Nancy Valentine and her equally tight-lipped escort, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, when friends ask if they`re wed."
Winchell knows: "starlet Nancy Valentine debunks the much-itemed rumor that she secretly married the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. He`s back in India and she`s doing the midnight zoos..."
Summer 51 announces she will become the bride of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and starts instruction in the Hindu faith. She’s 23; he’s 34.
51? her first daughter is born. The child dies almost immediately of a kidney ailment.
February 56 dates Les Freedman at the Captain`s Table
31 July 56 marries Tillinghast in a Yoga ceremony in Pacific Palisades, California. Under the Yoga ritual, the couple exchanged red and white roses in lieu of rings. A private dinner party follows. She says Tillinghast is joining her faith. He`s 35; she`s 28.
September 56 her maharajah is said to be one of the biggest Eastern spenders in London`s lusher nightspots and in Deauville, across the channel, struggling along on a $56,000 tax-free pension allowed him by the Indian government
her maharajah secretly marries shapely London model Gina Egan in a civil ceremony in London. He`s 40; she`s about 26. The couple will live apart ever after; he in his bachelor apartment, she with her mother. A week after the marriage, the maharajah goes to Rome alone, where he is frequently seen with actress-playgirl Linda Christian. News of that marriage will leak to the press in London in August 1959.
22 March 57 her daughter Darrin Elizabeth is born at Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles
30 August 57 tells a newsman in Hollywood that her second marriage is on the rocks. "I have consulted an attorney and will seek a divorce on grounds of mental cruelty."
November 57 files suit for divorce from Tillinghast in Santa Monica, charging cruelty. She asks for alimony and support of their small daughter, whose custody she seeks. He`s 36; she`s 29.
29 January 58 divorces Tillinghast in Santa Monica, California. She testifies in Superior Court that he was unfaithful to her and bragged openly about his conquests of other women. "He would tell our friends that I was a peasant and that he was Frederick Tillinghast III," she tells the judge. "The III is very important to him." Tillinghast agrees to pay $100 monthly support for their daughter and $1 a month token alimony. He`s 37; she`s 30. Tillinghast will marry Jeanne Hallman in 1959.
January 59 is seen out with actors agent Vic Orsatti
1 October 61 marries producer-director Charles Everett Chambers, whom she met while filming Tess of the Storm Country, in Los Angeles. He`s 35; she`s 33.
3 April 63 her daughter Alicia Kattrine is born premature at the Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles
? her two kids are raised in Pacific Palisades
11 April 70 the Maharajah of Cooch Behar dies at age 55 in a polo accident in Calcutta
June 74 divorces Chambers in Los Angeles