- Queen Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, hung her portrait over his bed. The Queen was not amused and personally removed the offending art work.
- In 1881, her stage debut at the Haymarket Theatre in London was the social event of the season.
- On the subject of her sound business judgment, she was given the rather dubious compliment of having "that rare phenomenon, a woman with a man's brain".
- Mrs. Langtry is most famous today as the object of "Hangin' Judge" Roy Bean's obsession. In court, those who had spoken kindly of her were often given leniency. Those who had disparaged her usually felt his wrath. He even hanged a few men who hadn't committed capital crimes. When a town grew up around his court in western Val Verde County, Texas, he named it "Langtry" for her. Because of this famous obsession, Mrs. Langtry is always mentioned, if not portrayed, in any book or movie in which Judge Bean is portrayed.
- One daughter: Jeanne Marie Langtry, born March 8 1881 in Paris, France. Her father was Prince Louis von Battenberg; Jeanne Marie met him for the first time in 1914.
- Was called "the loveliest woman of her day".
- Daughter of the very Reverend William Corbet Le Breton, Dean of Jersey.
- She once charmed her way past the minions protecting the privacy of J.P. Morgan, just to sell him tickets to a charity affair.
- Artists John Everett Millais, Edward Poynter, George Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones and James McNeill Whistler painted her portrait. Oscar Wilde dedicated his poem "To Helen Formerly of Troy, Now of London" to her and wrote the play "Lady Windemere's Fan" for her.
- Once dropped a chunk of ice down the back of the Prince of Wales' (the future King Edward VII) neck. The Prince was not amused.
- Hugo de Bathe, 19 years her junior, married Lily in 1899 after originally courting her daughter.
- In Europe, her first name was usually spelled "Lillie". In America, it was usually "Lily."
- Has been portrayed twice for the TV screen by English actress Francesca Annis, in Lillie (1978) and Edward the King (1975).
- Pictured on a set of 8 commemorative stamps and a souvenir sheet issued by the Bailiwick of Jersey, 22 September 2017. Stamps were of various denominations and showed photographs of Langtry in characters' costumes from her stage appearances.
- Lily Langtry is the inspiration for The Who's 1967 hit single "Pictures of Lily", as mentioned in Pete Townshend's 2012 memoir Who I Am.
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