Christine Sapieha may have been the daughter of a Polish prince, but when she arrived in the US in 1939 she shed her title – “There are no princesses in America, so I am not going to be one,” she declared – and much of her Polish heritage.
Seduced by ice cream and the American dream, particularly its equality of opportunity, she claimed not even to be able to speak Polish, although she was sometimes caught understanding fragments of conversations.
A strong-willed and fiercely independent woman, Christine supported herself as an artist for much of her working life. Her paintings had solo exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s at the Francis Kyle Gallery in central London and her stylised portrayals of the capital’s red-brick terraced
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