Memories… Luxury villas and stately homes. Dollar queens and aristocrats. A dream wedding in America and war in Europe. Diamonds and the Plague. The Riviera and Trianon. Stars of the silver screen and convicts in concentration camps. Excavated treasures and secret messages.Olympics and Secret Services.

Memories…Great-great-grandfathers on canvases; great-great-grandmothers on faded photos. Royal diplomas and family correspondence. The papers of political figures and the documents of athletes. Family treasures. National treasures.

This volume primarily introduces the reader to the family relics of the Szápáry-Széchényi family which made their way to the Hungarian National Museum in 2017. Of immense historical and art history value, the family heritage from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, comprising paintings, photo albums and a unique collection of documents arrived in Budapest from the family's one-time home in Pound Ridge near New York.