stud farm | Darley Stud | Coolmore Stud | Irish National Stud | Ashford Stud | The National Stud | Stud farm | Beech House Stud | Tersk Stud | Dutch Oven (right) and Wheatear at Lord Falmouth's Mereworth Stud in 1884, engraving by John Sturgess |
After appearing in such films as Percy's Progress, The Stud and The London Connection, she vanished from public view from the late 1970s and was found dead in her London council flat, a few weeks after suffering an apparent heart attack in 1995.
It was only in the 19th century that one of the many Ernestine branches, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, regained importance as the "stud of Europe", by ascending the thrones of Belgium (in 1831), Portugal (1853-1910), Bulgaria (1908–1946) and the United Kingdom (in 1901).
It was started by drag queen Heklina in 1996 as an offshoot of Klubstitute, and was a weekly fixture at The Stud bar in San Francisco for 12 years, drawing large crowds on a regular basis.