Edith Starr Miller

Her father, a Harvard and Columbia Law School graduate, was a wealthy industrialist and real estate operator in New York City.

[3] Her maternal grandparents were George Henry Warren (one of the founders of the Metropolitan Opera) and Mary Caroline (née Phoenix) Warren (a daughter of U.S. Representative Jonas P. Phoenix and granddaughter of Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City).

Edith and her close friend L. Fry (Paquita de Shishmareff) (1882–1970) spent about 10 years (1922–1931) researching many of the most important secret societies existing at that time in Europe and the Middle East.

(Chatou, France: British American Press, 1931-1933),[9] a work whose publication was completed shortly after Edith's death.

[10] As a whole, Occult Theocrasy was more comprehensive and up-to-date in its subject-matter than any other similar work available in the English language at that time.

It gives credence to the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and has two chapters that express praise for the mission of the Ku Klux Klan.

[13] On July 19, 1921, Edith became the second wife of Almeric Hugh Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough, a British industrialist and former Conservative MP.

[16] After Pauline's death, Paget resigned from the House of Commons and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Queenborough.

[25] Edith died a year later in a hospital in Paris after a surgery on January 16, 1933, at the age of forty-five.