Johannes von Thurn & Taxis (1926 - 1990)
grandson of Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn & Taxis
cousin of Mathilde von Sachsen Coburg (1936 - 2018)
cousin of Maria Anna von Sachsen Gesappe (1929 - 2012)

friend of Henriette von Auersberg (1933 - 2019)
friend of Aimee de Heeren (1903 - 2006)
friend of Soraya Esfandiary (1932 - 2001)
friend of young Ben Solms, VB.com





Running into someone from a fairy tale
coming soon

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Discovering the Telecom Background
of Cremerie de Paris through Thurn & Taxis

Cremerie de Paris is part of a century old mansion
where the young Bourbon King Louis XIV had lived a long time ago.
It was the house of the children François and Catherine de Villeroy,
their father was the tutor of the young boy, later called Sunking.

Growing up in Nazi Germany
As a 7 year old boy Johannes Thurn & Taxis
refused to join the Hitlerjugend.
The anti Nazi attitude of his grandfather Albert
and his father Karl August
left an impact on the young boy.
more coming soon



Getting a double digit Phone Code
for Brasil +55
Whenever you call someone in Brazill
your number starts with a magical +55
Did you know that Aimée
is behind this "magic number"
an idea she had with Coco Chanel back in the early 1960s

There are only 244 countries
but only 4 have a double digit phone code
France +33
UK +44
Thailand +66
and Brazil +55

Phonecodes were attributed by the International Telecom Union
in Geneva in the early 1960ies
+5x or +5xx were the phone codes for South America

Aimée influenced by her friend Chanel
wanted the double 5 for Brazil ...

story is coming soon
and will be published in the Phone Book of the World ...


Interview from 1970


With the internet things from the past
suddenly reappear.
2021 Nov 1 the editor of this article
was fascinated to discover the above interview
made half a century earlier by Alan Whicker.
Rediscovering someone you met sixteen years later.


Connecting the editor of this article
with Aimee de Heeren

Well it is not every day
a young student has the chance
to run into one of the World's ultimate secret service agents.


And like everybody else he had no idea about her real age ...
They met thanks to Johannes Thurn und Taxis
at his 60th brithday party in Regensburg Bavaria.
Aimée and Johannes had been close friends since a long time.



During the party
Aimée and the editor of this article
attracted the attention of the Vanity Fair journalist Bob Colacello
who mentioned them in the book above,
article "Let them eat Lobster" .





PS in case you should have met Johannes Thurn & Taxis yourself
and you should have some pictures
please mail them so we can add them into this article
b "at" vb.com


connected articles:
same article in French coming soon
Cremerie de Paris on Instagram



History of the Phone Book of the World
Histoire de l"Annuaire du Monde (in French)
Thurn - Taxis.com ... Johannes T&T, a key person in a long Telecom story