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Ionia Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked

Who was Ionia?    How did she vanish?    Where did she go?

Ionia - Magician
Goddess of Mystery

Ionia - Magician Princess - Secrets Unlocked

Learn the secrets now.  Order your book.

In 1910, a female magician named Ionia debuted a large illusion show in France and then toured around the European continent.  She was the daughter of two magicians, Charles de Vere and Julia Ferrett, known as Okita.  Ionia's real name was Clementine de Vere.  Her first husband was a world famous lion tamer.  Her second husband was an Old World Prince.  Just before WWI, Clementine went to Russia.  She spent four years there, leaving just after the Russian Revolution.  Her sister was one of the most photographed women in Paris.  Her brother in law was an American millionaire.  After returning to Paris, Princess Clementine operated a mysterious tea salon which became a famous way station for Russian emigres.  Along her unusual life journey, she had encounters with Houdini, Paul and Julia Child, Rasputin assassin Prince Felix Yusupov, and George Méliès.  When the time was right, she retired to a villa on one of the most famous estates on the French Riviera. 

 

Clementine de Vere was an enigma wrapped in a mystery.  Now, for the first time, her complete story is told in an exciting, full color book that spans 1843 to 1978.  Unlock Ionia's secrets.  Limited supply.  Order your books today.

Charles Greene III

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David Copperfield - I’m very proud to have “Ionia – Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked” in my International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts. Charles combined his expert knowledge of magic posters with two decades of passionate pursuit to reveal Ionia’s complete story. In this beautifully designed book, Charles tells the long overdue history of one of magic’s great illusionists, Ionia - Queen of Mystery.  This book is important as it increases the long overdue visibility and status of women in magic.

The one and only book of the complete history of Ionia the magician and the family de Vere

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Edwin A. Dawes

The Ionia story that you have unraveled is a real-life fairy tale with its ingredients of magic, circus, and ending with a Princess.

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Mike Caveney

Collecting all of this data on Ionia is like having a thousand puzzle pieces in a box. Now, after years of rearranging those puzzle pieces, they finally make sense, Charles has presented us all with a gift.

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Julie Eng

This is an epic work.  Congratulations on unearthing, chasing, discovering and now writing the great threads of this wonderful magician’s fascinating life. She does, indeed, deserve this story in its fullest form.

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