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Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean,Used
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The last and longest private owner of the Hope Diamond, Evalyn Walsh McLean led anything but an ordinary life. Evalyn grew up a poor girl in a rough Colorado mining town where her father discovered one of the largest gold mines in the United States. The newly wealthy family relocated to Washington, D.C., where she met and married Ned McLean, who inherited the renowned Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer. With the combined influence of the Walsh and McLean families, Evalyn developed friendships with the politically prominent in the nations capital and became the citys favorite hostess. Notorious for giving magnificent parties, she counted the Tafts, the Hardings, the Coolidges, Alice Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Ethel Barrymore among her many personal friends.The McLeans purchased the Hope Diamond when Evalyn was only twentyfour.Wagging tongues and the diamonds supposed curse did not, however, prevent her from wearing it. She lost the diamond a few times, too, once by putting it around her Great Danes neck. When she left the Hope Diamond to her grandchildren in 1947, it was worth two million dollars.Evalyn loved her diamonds, but she loved children, pets, and life more. The deep indigo stone is but a single facet of her story. Her autobiography, Father Struck It Rich, became a bestseller in the midthirties. Now illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, Queen of Diamonds is that autobiography with a foreword by her greatgrandson and an epilogue describing the last decade of her life.
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