This article refers to Langtry, Lillie. For other uses, see Langtry (disambiguation).
Lillie Langtry (née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, nicknamed the Jersey Lily) (13 October 1853 – 12 February 1929) was a British actress born on the island of Jersey in 1853.
Emilie Le Breton was the only daughter of the Dean of Jersey, Rev. William Corbet le Breton, having six brothers. She was educated by a French governess, her brothers' tutor.

Marriage
Langtry had many notable lovers, most of them prominent and well-connected men of the time. Her heyday as a society beauty culminated in her becoming a semi-official mistress to the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son Albert Edward ("Bertie"), the future king Edward VII. Her relationship with Edward cooled when she infuriated him by becoming intoxicated at a party and slipping and falling after stepping on a piece of ice.
Other lovers included wealthy Britons Robert Peel and George Baird. Among her friends were the Irish writer Oscar Wilde and the American artist James McNeill Whistler. She was for a time the manager of the Imperial Theatre and also produced red wine at her 4,200 acre (17 km²) winery in Lake County, California, which she purchased in 1888 and sold in 1906.

Relationships, affairs and scandals
In 1887, Langtry became an American citizen, and divorced her husband the same year in California. A letter of condolence written by her to a widow reads in part: "I too have lost a husband, but alas! it was no great loss", In 1899, she married the much younger Hugo Gerald de Bathe, who would inherit a baronetcy, and became a leading owner in the horse-racing world, before retiring to Monte Carlo. Her last years of acting were performed in vaudeville.
She resided during her final years in a home in Monaco, with her husband living separate from her a short distance away. During this period the two saw one another only when she called on him for social gatherings, or in brief private encounters. Her constant companion during this time was her close friend, Mathilda Peat, the widow of Lillie's deceased butler. Langtry died in Monaco in 1929, and was buried in the graveyard of St. Saviour's Church in Jersey – the church of which her father had been rector.

Cultural influence
The town of Langtry, Texas, was not named for her, although its most illustrious inhabitant, Judge Roy Bean, was an ardent admirer, naming the saloon where he held court "The Jersey Lily". Bean himself spread the rumor about the town's name. He also built an opera house in anticipation of a visit, and Mrs. Langtry appeared there after Bean's death. (The town was named for railroad supervisor George Langtry.) The Langtry Manor hotel in Bournemouth, Dorset, was built as a romantic retreat for Lillie and the Prince of Wales, Edward VII. - of course it was not built as a hotel but as a private house.
Lillie Langtry lived at 21 Pont Street, London from 1892 to 1897. Although from 1895 the building was actually the Cadogan Hotel, she would stay in her old bedroom there. A blue plaque on the hotel commemorates this, and the hotel's restaurant is named Langtry's in her honour.
Merman Cottage in Saint Brelade, Jersey, was owned and occupied by Lillie Langtry (Merman was also the name of one of her racehorses).
In the Golden Triangle area of Norwich, England, there is a public house named the Lillie Langtry, which is decorated in the Edwardian theatre style and has articles from newspapers of the time and old documents celebrating the talent of Lillie Langtry.
Lillie Langtry stayed at Teddy's Nook.

Notes
Langtry, Lillie, The Days I Knew, 1925. (Autobiography.)