Yola Letellier

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right |image1 = Yola Letellier, née Henriquez, at the Grand Steeple-Chase d'Auteuil, June 19, 1927 Colette observed the newlyweds Yola and Henri in 1926 at a hotel near Saint-Raphael, where they all were guests. The Letelliers reportedly maintained a normal family life in the French upper-class tradition, in which extra-marital affairs were accepted. When Henri died in 1960, Yola became wealthy in her own right. ==Other relationships==

Yola simultaneously maintained three relationships: with her husband, with her "official lover" Etienne de Horthy (killed in World War II), son of Hungarian regent Miklos Horthy, and with Lord Louis Mountbatten. Mary Jayne Gold, a close friend Yola met skiing in Davos, introduced her to de Horthy. Mountbatten claimed this was his first extra-marital affair. Yola was to be his principal mistress until his death in 1979. Mountbatten, according to one story, installed a pull-out double bed in his 1931 Rolls-Royce Phantom II to entertain Yola. Louis Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, maintained an unusual family relationship. Soon after Mountbatten's affair with Yola began, Edwina confronted Yola in Paris with a surprising result. "Your girl is sweet," Edwina wrote to her husband "and I like her and we got on beautifully and are now gummed and I am lunching with her at her house on Tuesday!!!" "Yola did not live with us but would visit frequently, bringing us charming gifts," according to the younger daughter, Pamela. The gifts included a French peasant dress and a short-hair dachshund. Edwina and the children even visited Yola and Henri Letellier at their home in France. ==References==