Where Is Zsuzsi Starkloff Now? Prince William Affair and Her Whereabouts
Zsuzsi Maria Starkloff, 83, of Steamboat Springs, died at home on May 1, 2020, after a valiant fight with cancer. In 1936, she was born in Budapest, Hungary.
She escaped the Communist dictatorship that had taken over her nation at the age of 20 and made her way to America, where she was quickly awarded US citizenship.
She started off as a model in New York before becoming a flight attendant with the now-defunct Overseas National Airways and flying all over the world.
Zsuzsi met and married a pilot, Ed ‘Starky’ Starkloff, during this period, and soon after she acquired her pilot’s license, allowing her to work as a flying teacher.
After her marriage to Starkloff ended, Zsuzsi relocated to Tokyo to study Japanese and teach English. She met the prince at a cocktail party while she was there in 1968, shortly after the foreign office deployed him to the city as a 26-year-old junior diplomat.
He called her Cinderella right away.
Zsuzsi was five years older than the prince and far wiser in the world. She wrote him a message the next day and sent it around to the British Embassy, knowing nothing about the stuffy procedure.
‘Dear Prince Charming, I’m missing a slipper,’ it said. Are you interested in attending a party?’ It worked perfectly. William came racing, and they were lovers in no time. In 2013, Zsuzsi informed me, ‘He was quite a dude.’
‘It’s quite macho.’ Very enthusiastic. He’s wise beyond his years.’ The connection grew away from the spotlight.
‘She knew absolutely little about the royal family, and almost nothing about Britain,’ says TV filmmaker Brian Henry Martin, who recorded her in Colorado in 2015.
He asked his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, how they would react if he offered marriage. They were opposed because she was older, divorced, and of a different faith than William (Jewish).
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