Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20151/10For his book on my family’s castle, our friend Todd Eberle photographed me in my mother’s Christian Lacroix couture and heirloom tiara (the one and only time I’ve worn it).
Artwork: Thomas Ruff, © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20152/10The Palace of St. Emmeram, in Regensburg, Germany, where my family has lived for two centuries.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20153/10A view of the east wing’s staterooms, which were designed between 1816 and 1873.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20154/10A library in the Abbey has a frescoed ceiling by the Baroque-period painter Cosmas Damian Asam.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20155/10A gilded neo-rococo staircase connects the first and second floors.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20156/10A portrait of my ancestor and namesake, Empress Elisabeth, hangs in the Silver Breakfast Room.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20157/10The porcelain room in the south wing.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20158/10The bowling alley, a favorite space for late-night parties.
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 20159/10My mum’s Harley-Davidson and Jeff Koons’s Moustache Lobsters (2003).
Photo: © Todd Eberle from House of Thurn und Taxis, Rizzoli, 201510/10The drawing room commingles formal portraiture with Mum’s cheeky contemporary art.
