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Society Board of Visitors Holiday Luncheon
The Board of Visitors is the oldest charity in our state. Every year for decades they have presented a slew of beautiful young ladies to society along with grandchildren and grandfathers alike at their annual holiday luncheon. This year the pink, green and festive afternoon was chaired by Cindy Good and
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Sally Guenther.
White House Design Studio transformed the Camelback Inn’s ballroom. Clyde Betts and Chris Beckley lent set up, AV and sound talents, while Margret Merritt coordinated fashions for everyone on the long runway. Proceeds benefit more than 15 local charities. A magnificent afternoon!
Judy LaMarr and Betsy Thornton with Katherine Cornish Shan Francis and Carolyn O’Malley Debbi Douglas and Trisha Anthony with Devin Douglas
Tony and Eileen Yeung Betsey Moore and Susan Shipley Slick Donna and Beau Lane
Pam Ward and Cristina Kiernan with Prue Brito Muffie Churchill and Karen Clements with Ann Mulchay
Nancy Stevens, Leslie Berry, Melissa Coy and Joanie O’Connor Karen Kotalik and Colleen Lomax with Julie Palmer
The Most Glamorous Sisters of All Time
By Spoiled Serena
Today when you think of glamorous sisters, most immediately think of the Kardashian and Jenner families. However, when they are in diapers or going through adolescence in the 1990s, there are three sisters who are the epitome of glamour and high society and they are, the Miller Sisters. The glamorous trio consists of Pia Getty, MarieChantal, Crown Princess of Greece, and Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg. They are the daughters of American born duty-free billionaire, Robert Warren Miller and his very elusive and glamorous Ecuadorian wife, María Clara “Chantal” Pesantes Beccera Miller. This article will focus on their utterly international privileged background, high-born husbands, grand weddings, and their social downfall during the 2000s. The origins of the Miller Sisters begins in Hong Kong in the 1960s where hardworking businessman, Robert Warren Miller has his growing duty-free empire based and since his business is based out of airports, he and his wife, Chantal are always on the move. They move around so much that all three of their daughters are born in different
The Miller Sisters portrait by David Seidner, 1995
countries. First, Pia Christina Miller in New York City in October of 1966, followed by Marie-Chantal Claire Miller in London in September of 1968, and lastly Alexandra Natasha Miller in Hong Kong in October of 1972. Throughout their childhoods the Miller Sisters grew up mainly between Hong Kong, Paris, New York City, and Switzerland. The sisters’ early years are spent in Hong Kong since that is where their father has his business, Duty-Free Shoppers, based. They live on the very prestigious, Victoria’s Peak, which is still one of the most expensive residential areas in the world. They first attend the Peak School in Hong Kong, before moving on to the very exclusive and very elite, Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. However, Marie-Chantal switches schools a bit more than her sisters. After leaving Le Rosey in the early 1980s, she transfers to the Ecole Active Bilingue in Paris where her family is mainly based at the time and they are living on the Île Saint-Louis in a hôtel particulier. She then goes on to The Masters School, a boarding school in Westchester County, New York. Also, because her parents were traveling all over the world and her sisters were in boarding school also abroad, she was able to live alone at her family’s luxurious apartment at the Carlyle on the Upper East Side. That meant she gets to run around the city with Andy Warhol and the rest of the Factory scene.
