Remote Observer
06-07-2007, 17:18
Yes, be a disappointment to your family and their long standing tradition of producing world leaders, high-brow aristocrats, etc.
Party until you die... and leave a well-used corpse...
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.
When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings. This aura of dangerous "glamour" charmed a large circle of friends and acquaintances drawn from the jeunesse dorée of the age; many of them knew him at Oxford, where he made friends such as Darius Guppy and Viscount Althorp and became an enthusiastic, rubber-clad member of the Piers Gaveston Society and the drink-fuelled Bullingdon and Loders clubs.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly he managed only a Third in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
Well, it's not like he needed an education...
On the other hand, it sounds like he was happy - he got to do everything he ever wanted to do, and to hell with what his family thought.
How many of us can claim that we're living exactly the way we want to live, and fuck everyone who thinks that the way we live is stupid, wrong, excessive, etc.?
Let us all raise a glass to the deceased Mr. Bismarck - at least he didn't invade some other country (well, he might have invaded some ass here and there, but that's harmless fun).
Sounds jealous, doesn't this reporter? ('http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox')
Party until you die... and leave a well-used corpse...
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany's Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.
When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings. This aura of dangerous "glamour" charmed a large circle of friends and acquaintances drawn from the jeunesse dorée of the age; many of them knew him at Oxford, where he made friends such as Darius Guppy and Viscount Althorp and became an enthusiastic, rubber-clad member of the Piers Gaveston Society and the drink-fuelled Bullingdon and Loders clubs.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly he managed only a Third in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
Well, it's not like he needed an education...
On the other hand, it sounds like he was happy - he got to do everything he ever wanted to do, and to hell with what his family thought.
How many of us can claim that we're living exactly the way we want to live, and fuck everyone who thinks that the way we live is stupid, wrong, excessive, etc.?
Let us all raise a glass to the deceased Mr. Bismarck - at least he didn't invade some other country (well, he might have invaded some ass here and there, but that's harmless fun).
Sounds jealous, doesn't this reporter? ('http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox')