Lucy Holcombe Pickens

Lucy Holcombe Pickens. Southern belle—and the rumored model for Gone with the Wind's Scarlett O'Hara, the "Queen of the Confederacy," and if the Confederate States are included, the very first woman to be featured on U.S. currency. Stories are that her young daughter helped light the fuse for the first shots of the Civil War. She was the rumored mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and even bore his child. Fact or fiction? We're going to sort through the life of Lucy Holcombe Pickens in today's episode.