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Thank you Prinsara and also LadyFinn. I think we might now be able to bring some clarity! I went back and read the passages in Feynman's book carefully and in fact, during the dinner, he sat next to two ladies, one of whom he says was "a princess who had gone to college in the United...

Yes indeed Prinsara, however he described himself would have made no difference to his fate had he been in Germany between 1933 and 1945. And in 1965, at such a dinner in Stockholm, a subject best avoided. In his book, he gave his version of his brief conversation with the Danish princess...

Thank you Prinsara for your information and confirmation etc, The sash attribute is interesting. Feynman a declared atheist, always referred to himself as someone who just happened to have been born into a Jewish household, which is an interesting choice of words. He also described himself as...

Thank you JR76. If that is not Sibylla at the table with Feynman then I shall take the wise course in my book covering certain of Feynman’s activities from Dec 65 to Feb 66 (Nobel, seminar at CERN, Rio carnival) and make no reference whatsoever to princesses, not being an expert. He claimed in...

Sibylla and Feynman Feynman mentions two princesses whom he sat next to at the Nobel Prize dinner (having seen the menu, I can’t agree it was a banquet) and I would enjoy hearing what the experts here have to say. During the meal, he sat next to a Princess, he didn’t name her, but he said...