Obituary: Princess Marianne, photographer of the jet set who was nicknamed the mother of the paparazzi
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Princess Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, who has died aged 105, spent decades photographing the jet set from within.
Her archive of more than 10,000 images captured her friends in off-duty moments of frivolity, from King Juan Carlos of Spain playing table tennis and a picnicking Yves Saint Laurent to the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos larking around in a false moustache or Maria Callas snorkelling off Aristotle Onassis's yacht with her dog on her back.
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