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ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Okay, so on the eve of my 21st birthday, I met Count Erik Wachtmeister. The world may know him as the dashing Swedish playboy who started A Small World, the private Facebook equivalent for the “jet setting, wealthy, well-traveled and well-heeled few.” I know him as “my roommate.” Erik rented a big house in Bel Air, California and invited me, a snobby girl named Julia, and the actress Elizabeth Hurley to rent the house with him. All we ever did was entertain. God, if those walls could talk!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t4P6mZCUIHc/VACzXDr_MXI/AAAAAAAAFmM/h4tOn-oUMxg/s1600/photo1.jpg

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Erik was the ringleader and the girls and I were the hostesses with the mostesses. We had a dinner party nearly every weekend. These were no normal cocktail parties or dinner parties. Before A Small World debuted, our house was the small world. Celebrities, musicians, royalty, notorious playboys, models, actors and actresses, socialites, philanthropists, nobility, an heiress or two, various bon vivants, business tycoons, and more than one infamous “character”…you name it, they were at our house. Believe it or not, we did everything on our own for these parties. We had a housekeeper but that was it. Erik, obviously, organized the guest list and took care of the entertainment. The girls and I did all of the decorating, setting the table, shopping and cooking. We had a great kitchen that was the hub of the house so I liked to be there. I would search through cookbook after cookbook to find interesting hors d’oeuvres. You cannot just serve Nicholas Berggruen a lil' smokie on a toothpick, for God’s sake. We had standards…or did we? Let me explain…

Elizabeth Hurley is one of the chicest, loveliest, most beautiful, elegant, sophisticated, well-dressed, polished, cosmopolitan fancy pants women on earth. There is no attesting that. However, the girl cannot cook. This is the funny part of my story. So on this particular day, we were preparing for a dinner party, looking forward to entertaining Prince and Princess So-And-So. I was preparing the actual dinner so I asked Elizabeth if she could take care of the hors d’oeuvres. “Absolutely, darling,” she replied. Great, I thought, a few things off of my plate and I could focus on the dinner. Elizabeth left for about five hours and finally returned with the “hors d’oeuvres.” Wait for it… She walked into the kitchen with five grocery store bags filled with… Swear to God, Puffy Cheetos! Elizabeth Hurley! Puffy Cheetos!

http://havesomedecorum.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-wachtmeister-years.html

http://havesomedecorum.blogspot.com/search/label/Erik%20Wachtmedister

https://www.bestofallworlds.com/

In March 2004, the web portal "A Small World" was founded, which

became a gathering place for rich people and celebrities around the

world. Behind the page are Erik Wachtmeister, born in 1955, and

his wife Louise, born in 1978. The age difference of 23 years is obviously

not a problem. The couple has two children; a son and a daughter.

Erik has lived a bit here and was in the world, including New York City,

Los Angeles, London and Paris, but has now settled in

Stockholm and lives in a cozy apartment by Stureparken on

Östermalm in Stockholm.

A Small World did not generate large sums until after a few

years when it was decided to invest in having advertising on the site

, which gave financial success. Erik's new project "Best of All

Worlds "is a similar project, but has not yet been a

major success.

Erik was previously married to a woman of Polish origin named

Monika (they were married between 1998 and 2001). Together with

her he had a daughter also named Louise .

http://rikasvenskar.blogspot.com/2011/12/erik-wachtmeister.html

MercurysBall2 ago

Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Trolle-Wachtmeister

Countess Alice Victoria Trolle-Wachtmeister (9 May 1926 – 26 June 2017) was a courtier at the Royal Court of Sweden from the 1970s to 2015, serving as chief court mistress from 1994 to 2015.

Seventeen years old in 1943, she followed her mother's example and joined the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization. After school graduation in 1945, she undertook home education which her father regarded as his daughter's military service. Then followed a nursing course with internship at a children's hospital, a practical social course in Copenhagen 1945–1947, a period in an English family and a time as a hostess.[2] In 1947 she graduated from child care nurse training.[1] In 1949, Alice Tornérhielm married Count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister (born 9 January 1923), a member of the Trolle-Wachtmeister family, with whom she lived at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania.[3] Trolle-Wachtmeister then engaged in the Swedish Red Cross and in the Church Sewing Association

Wachtmeister (Swedish family) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachtmeister_(Swedish_family)

Wachtmeister is a Swedish noble family from Livonia, who immigrated to Sweden in the 16th century. The name Wachtmeister is German for 'sergeant'.... Count Hans Wachtmeister af Johannishus' grandson's son, the Lord High Steward Carl Axel Wachtmeister, adopted, with the support of a royal letter on 5 April 1808, after his mother he took up the entailed estate of Trolleberg, the name Trolle-Wachtmeister. This name, along with the Trolle coat of arms in conjunction with that of the Wachtmeister coat of arms, must be borne by his descendant of the Wachtmeister family, who holds the mentioned entailed estate (the right of the entailed estate was transferred in 1830 from Trolleberg to Ljungby, later called Trolle-Ljungby).

Trolle family coat of arms https://imgur.com/a/Rj89aTX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolle