From biker princess to Catholic activist.
When I last wrote about Gloria, Dowager Princess of Thurn und Taxis – aka the Harley Davidson-driving “Punk Princess” – in the summer of 2007, I was summoned to the Festival Thurn und Taxis Schlossfestspiele in Regensburg, to visit her late husband Johannes’s family’s vast 500-room castle about an hour and a half drive from Munich. “We will have a cocktail for some friends at 8pm so it would be good if you could be there on time at the Schloß. Be aware that the opening night is a popular operetta named Das weiße Rössl am Wolfgangsee in which I am performing. It will be sung in German, of course.”
