RoyalDish - American princesses - page 4 (2024)

Edith Russell, became Edith Playfair, Baroness Playfair

Hannah Sarah Howard, became The Hon. Mrs Octavius Henry Lambart

Isabella Eugénie Boyer (17 December 1841 – 12 May 1904) born in Paris to Louis Noël Boyer, an African-born French confectioner, and his English-born wife Pamela Lockwood (aka Pamilla). She married Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., in New York City, in 1863 when Isaac was 52 and Isabella was only 22. Singer had a previous common-law wife, Mary Ann Sponsler, who had Isaac arrested for bigamy.They had six children On 8 January 1879, Isabella married a Dutch musician, Victor Reubsaet , and settled in Paris. Victor was an internationally successful singer and violinist. He was born in 1843 in Sittard, as Nicolas Reubsaet, a son of a simple shoemaker. Pretending to be of noble descent, he falsely claimed the title Vicomte d’Estenburgh. In 1881, he did obtain the title of Duke of Camposelice from Italian King Umberto I, in appreciation for a generous act of philanthropy in favor of the Italian colonies.

Ada Hungerford, became Ada Telfener, Countess Telfener

Mary Reade, became Mary Cary, Viscountess Falkland

Katharine Buckner Norton, first married Charles Grantley Campbell Norton, second married (his cousin) John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, FSA, FRNS (1 October 1855 – 5 August 1943) She had issue

Laura Jane Delancey Meinell, became Laura d'Avenel, Viscountess d'Avenel

Ellen Falkenburg Abbott, became Ellen Magawly Cerati, Countess Magawly di Calry

Maria Anna Christ, previously Berna, became Maria Anna Lobo da Silveira, Marquise de Alvito and Countess de Oriola

Florence Emily Sharon, became Florence Fermor-Hesketh, Lady Fermor-Hesketh

Kate Howell, became Kate Perceval, Countess of Egmont

Medora Marie von Hoffmann, became Medora Manca-Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès et de Montemaggiore

Margaret Hamilton, became Margaret Waterlow, Lady Waterlow

Margaret Plater Price, became Baroness Edmund Wucherer von Huldenfeld

Mathilde Louise Price, became Baroness Gábor Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva

Edith Fish, became The Hon. Mrs Hugh Oliver Northcote

Anita Theresa Murphy, became Anita Wolseley, Lady Wolseley

Julia Norrie Moke, became Julia Paget, Lady Paget

Leonie Blanche Jerome, became Leonie Leslie, Lady Leslie

Martha Estelle Garrison, became The Hon. Mrs Charles Maule Ramsay

Josephine Mary Beers-Curtis, became Josephine Ruspoli, Princess di Poggio Suasa

Margaret "Daisy" Sedgwick Berend, became Daisy Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baroness de Constant de Rebecque

Frances Margaret Lawrance, became Frances Venables-Vernon, Baroness Vernon

Tennessee Celeste Claflin, became Tennessee Cook, Lady Cook and Viscountess de Monserrate

Nancy McClellan Fry, became Marquise Carlo Vetti Torrigiani

Norma Christmas, became Norma de Suarez d'Aulan, Marquise d'Aulan

Anita Maria Carroll, became Baroness Louis de La Grange

Mary Louisa Carroll, became Countess Jean de Kergorlay

Leilah Kirkham, previously Blair, became The Hon. Mrs Walter Yarde-Buller

Adele Livingston de Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquise de Talleyrand, duch*ess de Dino (née Sampson; formerly Stevens) (August 23, 1841 – July 19, 1912) was an American heiress and philanthropist, known for her two marriages. Adele was born in New York City on August 23, 1841. She was the only child of Joseph Sampson (1793–1872) and Adele Sampson (née Livingston) Sampson of the prominent American Livingston family). Her father was a merchant and co-founder of the Chemical Bank, the precursor to JPMorgan Chase On October 8, 1862, Adele was married to prominent lawyer and banker Frederic William Stevens (1839–1928) in New York City Before their legal separation in 1886 and then divorce, they were the parents of 4 children Around 1875, Adele met French aristocrat, soldier, and author Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who was then married to fellow American heiress Elizabeth Beers-Curtis, with whom he had a daughter, Marie Palma de Talleyrand-Périgord (who later married Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa). Maurice was the son of Alexandre de Talleyrand-Périgord, who was styled 3rd Duke of Dino, 1st Marquis de Talleyrand, and Valentine de Sainte-Aldegonde. When he returned to Paris, Adele took two of her daughters and went abroad, returning to America in 1882 to seek a divorce, finally obtaining a decree on the grounds of non-support and desertion. Meanwhile, Maurice obtained a divorce from Elizabeth and joined Adele in Paris In what was described as a shock to society, Adele and Maurice married in Paris at the American Church in the Rue de Berri on 25 January 1887 When Maurice became the 4th Duke of Dino, 2nd Marquis de Talleyrand, she became the duch*ess of Dino. The "happiness of Mrs. Stevens and the Duc de Dino, however, was only ephemeral, and on April 2, 1903, the first chamber of the Paris Civil Courts pronounced a divorce in favor of the duch*ess, the Duc having no presentation in Court." Adele died at her home, 19 Rue Roynouard, Paris, on July 19, 1912.

Ellen Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde (née Ellen Sprague Stager; 26 May 1865 – 17 June 1951) was an American heiress and British peeress who was the daughter of General Anson Stager. She married Lord Arthur Butler, younger brother of James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, who became the 4th Marquess of Ormonde of Ormonde in 1919. Ellen held the title Marchioness of Ormonde from 1919 until her husband's death in 1943. She was the mother of George Butler, 5th Marquess of Ormonde and Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde.

Winnaretta Singer (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was an American-born heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life. Singer entered into two marriages that were unconsummated, and openly enjoyed many high-profile relationships with women. She was styled as Princess Louis de Scey-Montbéliard during her first marriage and as Princess Edmond de Polignac following her second marriage in 1893. Winnaretta Singer was born in Yonkers, New York, the twentieth of the 24 children of Isaac Singer. Her mother was his Parisian-born second wife, Isabella Eugénie Boyer. After the American Civil War, the Singer family moved to Paris, where they remained until the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The family then settled in England After Isaac Singer's death in 1875, Isabella and her children moved back to Paris. In 1879 Isabella remarried; her new husband was a Belgian violinist, Victor-Nicolas Reubsaet. Presumably, he abused Winnaretta; rumors flew about the violence in their house. As soon as she came of age, Winnaretta seized control of her $1 million inheritance and left to live on her own Although known within private social circles to be a lesbian, Winnaretta married at the age of 22 to Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard (fr). The marriage was annulled in 1892 by the Catholic church, five years after a wedding night that reportedly included the bride's climbing atop an armoire and threatening to kill the groom if he came near her In 1893, at the age of 28, she stepped companionably into an equally chaste marriage with the 59-year-old Prince Edmond de Polignac (1834–1901), a gay amateur composer. Although it was a mariage blanc (unconsummated marriage), or indeed a lavender marriage (a union between a gay man and a lesbian), it was based on profound platonic love, mutual respect, understanding, and artistic friendship, expressed especially through their love of music In the course of her life, Singer had affairs with numerous women, never making attempts to conceal them, and never going for any great length of time without a female lover She had these affairs during her own marriages and afterwards, and often with other married women.

Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869–1896), daughter of Isaac Singer and his second wife, Isabella Eugénie Boyer. She married the French aristocrat Jean, Duc Decazes et de Glücksbierg in 1888 They had three children. After her suicide their children were raised in large part by their aunt Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac.

Cora Slocomb di Brazza (January 7, 1862 – August 24, 1944) was an American heiress and Italian activist, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Born into a wealthy family in New Orleans, she relocated to Connecticut after her father's death and was raised in Quaker traditions. In 1887, she went to Italy and married Detalmo Savorgnan di Brazza, brother of explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. They settled in his family estate at the Castello di Brazzà [nl] in Moruzzo in the Province of Udine, wintering in Rome

Mary Daisy Holman, became Baroness Ludovic Moncheur

Laura Dove, previously Blanchard, became Laura Haldane-Duncan, Countess of Camperdown

Mary Hooper, became first Marquise Paolo d'Adda Salvaterra, second Countess Horace de Choiseul-Praslin

Louisa Melissa Corbin (d. 1909), daughter of D. C. Corbin, of New York, United States, became Louisa Walpole, Countess of Orford

Lily Spencer-Churchill, duch*ess of Marlborough (née Lilian Warren Price) (June 10, 1854 – January 11, 1909) was an American heiress and socialite during the Gilded Age. Lilian Warren Price was born on June 10, 1854, in Troy, New York. Her father was Commodore Cicero Price (1805–1888), an officer in the United States Navy who served in the American Civil War and was Commander of the East India Squadron, and her mother, Elizabeth Homer Paine (1828–1910) Her first marriage was to Louis Carré Hamersley, a millionaire heir to a real estate fortune in New York City, who died in 1883 and was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery Her second husband was George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844–1892), son of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, duch*ess of Marlborough; they were married in New York City in New York City Hall by Mayor Abram Hewitt in May 1888 As a result of this marriage, she became the duch*ess of Marlborough on June 29, 1888. After the 1892 death of the 8th Duke and her subsequent remarriage, she sued her stepson, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, then married to Consuelo Vanderbilt, to retrieve the money spent on its restoration Her third husband was Lord William de la Poer Beresford (1847–1900), son of John Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford (1814-1866) and Christiana Leslie As a result of this marriage, which took place on April 30, 1895, she became known as Lady William Beresford. Before his death on 30 December 1900, they were the parents of one child

Leila "Belle" Wilson (1864–1923), the second daughter of Richard Thornton Wilson, a banker and cotton broker from New York City and Newport, Rhode Island. She married Sir Michael Henry Herbert, KCMG, CB, PC (25 June 1857 – 30 September 1903) and had issue

Helen Julia Pfizer, became Helen Duncan, Lady Duncan

Marie Louise La Farge (1845–1899), first married to Edward Whyte, second married to George Lyndes Lorillard (March 26, 1843 – February 3, 1886) (Doña María Luisa La Farge Binsse de Saint-Victor de Ágreda May, Countess de Casa de Ágreda)

Elizabeth Wadsworth, previously Post, became Elizabeth Smith-Barry, Baroness Barrymore

Jeanie Willson Chamberlain, became Jeanie Naylor-Leyland, Lady Naylor-Leyland

Princess Clara von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (née Clara Elizabeth Prentice, then Prentice-Huntington) (March 13, 1860 – December 18, 1928) was an American heiress and member of the Huntington family who married into the princely House of Hatzfeld. Clara Elizabeth Prentice was born in Sacramento, California on 13 March 1860 She was the biological daughter of Edwin D. Prentice (1821–1862), a Sacramento grocer, and Clara (née Stoddard) Prentice (1824–1912). After her father's death, Clara was adopted by her aunt, Elizabeth Stillman (née Stoddard) Huntington (1823–1883), and her husband, industrialist and railway magnate Collis P. Huntington While traveling through Spain with Mrs. John Sherwood, Clara met Prince Franz Edmund Joseph Gabriel Vitus von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (1853–1910), who "became infatuated with her. For some time he has followed her about most devotedly." Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt was born in Bavaria and was a son of Alfred, Prince von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (son of Sophie von Hatzfeldt) and Countess Gabriele von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie (a daughter of Joseph Franz, Prince of Dietrichstein) Despite the press's articles about Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt, on October 28, 1889, Clara was married to him by the Bishop of Emmaus at St Wilfrid's Chapel at Brompton Oratory in London Prince Franz died in London on November 4, 1910, seven months before his father As they had no children, his princely rights and estates were inherited by his cousin, Count Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (the only son of Count Paul von Hatzfeldt), who was the last Prince of Hatzfeld-Wildenburg. After her marriage, Princess Clara became prominent in aristocratic German and English society and was "the leading American hostess in London for many years."

Caroline FitzGerald, daughter of William John FitzGerald of Connecticut. She married
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice Their marriage was annulled in 1894 and they had no children. He died in June 1935, two days after his 89th birthday. The title Baron Fitzmaurice became extinct on his death

Mary Wister Wheeler, became Countess Maximilian Albrecht zu Pappenheim

Josephine Catherine Hale, became Josephine Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery

Clara Ward, became Clara de Riquet, Princess de Caraman-Chimay

Mary Elizabeth "Lina" Breckinridge Caldwell, became Baroness Moritz Curt von Zedtwitz

Frances Stevens, became Countess Charles de Galliffet, then Countess Maurice des Monstiers de Mérinville

Frances Helene Forbes Beckwith, became Helene Leigh, Baroness Leigh

Anne Hollingsworth Price) (August 25, 1868 – April 24, 1945) a daughter of oil magnate James Price II (1834–1904) and Sarah M. (née Harlan) Price (1832–1898). Anne was one of five sisters, who all married into the European nobility On December 17, 1890, Anne was married to Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Ardeck (1858–1902) in Dresden The eldest son of Maria von Hanau-Hořowitz and Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld His father was a son of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and Princess Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (a daughter of Prince Louis William Geldricus Ernest of Bentheim and Steinfurt. Notwithstanding that his mother was a daughter of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse-Cassel, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt regarded his parents' marriage as morganatic. Upon his parents' divorce in 1872, his mother and the children were styled Princes of Ardeck and Princesses of Ardeck. Prince Friedrich died on April 1, 1902, at Villa Wilhelmshöhe. On February 4, 1904, she married Hungarian magnate Baron József Döry de Jobaháza (1868–1954) in Mihályi (formerly the Kingdom of Hungary). He was a son of Baron Nicholas Miklós Dőry de Jobaháza and Baroness Mária von Horváth de Szürnyeg. Together, they were the parents of four daughters (three of whom married titles) In 1945, after the Russians pillaged Schloss Johnsdorf and carried off their daughter Mária, Anne and her husband fled to Austria where she died a month later, aged 80, on April 24, 1945, from "hardships suffered under the Russian occupation of Austria."Their daughter died three days later

American heiress Marcelite "Lita" Garner, married Henri Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1848-1916)

American heiress Helen Barbey, daughter of Henry Isaac Barbey and Mary Lorillard Barbey. She married, as his 2nd wife, Count Hermann Alexander de Pourtalès (31 March 1847 – 28 November 1904)

Eva Barbey (1879–1943), born in Bellevue, baptised Eveline, daughter of Henry Isaac Barbey and Mary Lorillard Barbey. She married André Poupart, Baron de Neuflize (1875–1926), eldest son of Jean de Neuflize, in 1903

Florence Garner, became Florence Gordon-Cumming, Lady Gordon-Cumming

Mary Burrows, became Mary Gough-Calthorpe, Baroness Calthorpe

Sallie Mae Price, became Baroness Maximilian von Berg

Mabel Ledyard Stevens, became Countess Micislas Orlowski

Emma Riley, previously Livermore, became Emma Seillière, Baroness Seillière

Mary Carpenter Knowlton, became Countess Johannes von Francken-Sierstorpff

Caroline Cleveland, became The Hon. Mrs Francis Anson

Elizabeth Richardson French, became Elizabeth Eaton, Baroness Cheylesmore

Amy Eliza Green, became Amy Home-Speirs, Lady Home

American heiress Antoinette Pinchot, daughter of J. W. Pinchot of New York She married Sir Alan Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone GCVO (31 August 1858 – 31 July 1932) and had issue

Mary Carolyn Campbell McCreery (née Cuyler, formerly Lady Grey-Egerton) (23 December 1871 – 25 November 1958) was an American socialite. May was born on 23 December 1871 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was a daughter of Alice (née Holden) Cuyler and Maj. James Wayne Cuyler (1841–1883) of Baltimore, Maryland. On 4 January 1893, May was married to Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 12th Baronet in London. Sir Philip was the only son of Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 11th Baronet and Hon. Henrietta Denison (eldest daughter of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough). Before their divorce in May 1905, they were the parents of twin sons and a daughter After their divorce, May married Richard Stephen McCreery (1866–1938) on 2 March 1907 at May's residence on Hallam Street in London. McCreery, who was divorced from Edith Kip, was a son of Andrew Buchanan McCreery and Isabel (née Swearingen) McCreery. They had a daughter Her first husband, Sir Philip, died on 4 July 1937, and her second husband died in 1938. As both of their sons predeceased their father, the baronetcy passed to the Rev. Sir Brooke de Malpas Egerton, Sir Philip's first cousin once removed

Cornelia Craven, Countess of Craven (née Martin; September 22, 1877 – May 24, 1961) was an American-born heiress who married into the British aristocracy and was known as one of the "Dollar Princesses". She was also a prominent art collector. Cornelia Martin was born in New York City on September 22, 1877. She was the only daughter of the socially ambitious Bradley Martin and Cornelia Sherman Martin While her family was renting Balmacaan, a Scottish highland estate, from Lady Seafield, Cornelia met William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven. Lord Craven, later a Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard and Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, had become the Earl of Craven in 1883, at the age of fourteen. William was the eldest son of the late George Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven, and his wife, the former Hon. Evelyn Laura Barrington (second daughter of George Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington, who was a Member of Parliament for Eye) Together, Cornelia and William were the parents of one child, a son and heir born in 1897 On July 10, 1921, whilst racing at Cowes Week, Lord Craven fell overboard and drowned at age 52, with his body washing ashore two days later

Flora Curzon, Lady Howe (born Florence Hamilton Davis; January 27, 1870 – April 15, 1925) was an American heiress and singer who twice married into the British aristocracy. Florence Hamilton Davis was born in New York City around 1865. Flora, as she was known, was the daughter of Bellevue, Ohio born Florence (née Chapman) Davis and John Hagy Davis, a Wall Street banker with John H. Davis & Co., located at 10 Wall Street. On October 16, 1893, Flora was married to Lord Terence John Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood at the English Church of the Holy Trinity in the Avenue de l'Alma in Paris He was the second son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava During their marriage, Flora was "socially prominent in the American colony in London" and they were the parents of three daughters In December 1919, nearly two years after Lord Dufferin's death, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava remarried to widower Richard George Penn Curzon, 4th Earl Howe, "one of the richest and most distinguished nobleman in England."Lord Howe was a son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe and the former Isabella Maria Katherine Anson (a daughter of Major-General The Hon. George Anson). His first wife was Lady Georgiana Spencer-Churchill, the fifth daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, and wife Lady Frances Vane. From his first marriage, he had one son, Francis, who became the 5th Earl Howe upon Lord Howe's death in 1929. Lady Howe died of heart disease following influenza and pneumonia at Penn House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire on 14 April 1925.

Adele Beach Capell, Countess of Essex (née Adele Beach Grant; 9 December 1866 – 28 July 1922) was an American-born socialite who married into the British nobility. She was also a vegetarianism activist. She was born in New York City on 9 December 1866. She was a daughter of Rebecca Douglas (née Stewart) Grant (1835–1917) and David Beach Grant (1839–1888) of the Grant Locomotive Works Adele was engaged to Lord Cairns, but broke off the engagement on the eve of their wedding "owing to the prospective bridegroom's extortionate demands for a settlement." She married George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, at St Margaret's, Westminster on 14 December 1893. The service was carried out by Archdeacon Farrar, and Sir Arthur Sullivan played the organ. The Earl and Countess lived at Cassiobury Park, Watford. The couple had two daughters After the Earl's death, in 1916, Adele was rumoured to be engaged to the Duke of Connaught (a younger brother of King Edward VII, who became widowed himself in March 1917).However, she never remarried. In 1920, Adele and her stepson, Algernon Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, sold off Cassiobury Park and its contents. She lived on as the Dowager Countess of Essex at her London home, 72 Brook Street, Mayfair, where she died, aged 55, on 28 July 1922

Carola Silvie Livingston, became Countess Henri de Laugier-Villars

Virginia Lee Daniel, aka Virginia Bonynge, became Virginia Coventry, Viscountess Deerhurst

Julia Scott, became Countess Georg Erdődy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló

Elizabeth Helen Sperry, became Elizabeth Poniatowski, Princess Poniatowski, Princess di Monte Rotondo

Susan Tucker Whittier, became Princess Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky

Mary Augusta "May" Yohé, aka the first American stage princess, became Lady Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope

Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith, became The Hon. Mrs Bertrand Russell

Anna Gould, became Countess Boni de Castellane, then Anna de Talleyrand-Périgord, duch*ess de Sagan

Maud Alice Burke (3 August 1872 – 10 July 1948), later Lady Cunard, known as Emerald, was an American-born, London-based society hostess. She had long relationships with the novelist George Moore and the conductor Thomas Beecham, and was the muse of the former and a champion of and fund-raiser for the latter. She was a supporter of Wallis Simpson during the British abdication crisis of 1936, vainly hoping for a court appointment. The Second World War ended her era of private patronage and lavish hospitality. Maud Burke was born in San Francisco, to an Irish-American father, James Burke (who claimed descent from the Irish rebel Robert Emmet) and his half-French wife She hoped to marry Prince André Poniatowski, grandson of the last King of Poland, but he jilted her and in April 1895 she married Sir Bache Cunard, 3rd Baronet, grandson of the founder of the Cunard shipping line. He was 21 years her senior, and despite his affection for her, they had little in common. In 1911, the Cunards formally separated by common agreement. At about this time, to the dismay of Moore, Lady Cunard fell in love with the conductor Thomas Beecham and became widely recognised in society as his companion. She was a tireless fund-raiser and persuaded many rich and upper-class people to support Beecham's extravagant operatic ventures This was always important to Beecham, and it became more so after the First World War, when his finances were much depleted. Cunard died in 1925, and his widow never remarried. In the years after Cunard's death, she took to calling herself "Emerald", by which name she was known for the rest of her life (though not by either Moore or Beecham) The widowed Lady Cunard took up residence in Grosvenor Square. David Lloyd George considered Lady Cunard "a most dangerous woman", because although she was not greatly interested in politics, she beguiled senior politicians such as Lord Curzon into indiscreet statements at her dinner table Among her regular guests in the 1930s was her fellow American Wallis Simpson, whose liaison with Edward, Prince of Wales she encouraged, thus reinforcing Queen Mary's disapproval of the Cunard set.Believing that Mrs. Simpson would become queen, Lady Cunard hoped to be rewarded with the post of Mistress of the Robes in the new court. When her dream was dashed by Edward's abdication in 1936, she wept and lamented "How could he do this to me!" The outbreak of the Second World War marked the end of the lavish entertainment and private patronage of hostesses such as Lady Cunard and her rival Sibyl, Lady Colefax. Beecham's residence in the US in the early years of the war led Lady Cunard to move to New York, where she set up home in a luxurious hotel. In 1942, she learned from an acquaintance that Beecham was going to marry the pianist Betty Humby. She returned to London and moved into the Dorchester Hotel where she died, miserable and lonely, at the age of 75.

Loretta Mooney, aka Loretta Addis, became Lady Sholto George Douglas

Leonora Sophia Van Marter, became Leonora Bennet, Countess of Tankerville

Marie Delphine Meredith Read, became Countess Maximilien de Foras

Cara Leland Rogers, previously Duff, became Cara Broughton, Baroness Fairhaven

Margaret Rives Nichols, became Margaret Pineton de Chambrun, Marquise de Chambrun

Mabel Elizabeth Wright, previously Yznaga, became Countess Béla Mária Rudolf Zichy de Zich et Vásonkeő

Amy VanTine, became Amy Parker, Lady Parker

Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (August 23, 1863 – June 15, 1945) was an American author of novels, poetry, and plays. The Quick or the Dead? (1888), her first novel, which sold 300,000 copies, created more of a sensation than any of her later work. Her 1914 novel, World's End was reputed to be "the best seller in New York City". Described as a genius who was morbidly sensitive, she was a woman of moods and fancies, but in manner, as simple as a child Amélie Louise Rives was born August 23, 1863, in Richmond, Virginia, to Alfred L. Rives, an engineer, and the former Sadie MacMurdo. She was named after her aunt, Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie She was a goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and Senator William Cabell Rives, Minister Plenipotentiary to France in the early part of the 19th century In 1888, Amélie Rives married John Armstrong Chanler, a great-great grandson of John Jacob Astor and the oldest of 10 orphaned siblings, born to John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward of the Astor family. The courtship was at Newport. They spent the years of 1890–91 in Europe The Rives-Chanler marriage was scandalous, and unhappy. The couple spent seven years as husband and wife, but most of the time lived apart In 1896, just four months after their divorce, she married Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, an artist and aristocrat

Caroline Sherman Story, became Countess Conrad de Buisseret Steenbecque de Blarenghien

Mary Gwendolin "Mamie" Byrd Caldwell, became Mary Gwendolin des Montiers-Mérinville, Marquise des Monstiers-Mérinville

Matilda "Maud" Cass Ledyard, became Baroness Clemens August von Ketteler

Helen "Ella" Holbrook Walker, became Countess Manfred von Matuschka, then Princess della Torre e Tasso and duch*ess of Castel Duino

Fanny Fithian, became Countess Arthur de Gabriac

Cora Smith, previously Colgate, became Cora Byng, Countess of Strafford

Marion "Maria" Hubbard Treat, previously McKay, aka Countess Maria von Bruening, became Baroness Adolf Johann von Brüning

Florence Elsworth Hazard, became Princess Franz Seraph Maria Joseph Nepomuk von Auersperg

Mary Ethel Burns, became Mary Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt

Julia Dent Grant, became Princess Mikhail Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky

Clara Pauline Joran, aka Baroness de Bush, became Pauline, Baroness von Bush

Lily Whitehouse, became The Hon. Mrs Charles John Coventry

Marian Hall Munroe, became Marian Hottinguer, Baroness Hottinguer

Ethel Tucker, became The Hon. Mrs Archibald Lionel Lindesay-Bethune

Edith Marie Van Buren (1858–1914), also known later in life as the Countess de Castelmenardo, was an American socialite and world traveler. She is remembered for her tourism in the Yukon, her contentious divorce from a man styling himself as the Count di Castelmenardo, and her family connection to Teaneck, New Jersey. Edith Van Buren's father was General Thomas Brodhead Van Buren, a Union officer and U.S. diplomat who later became the U.S. Consul-General in Yokohama. Through her father, Edith Van Buren was related to the U.S. president Martin Van Buren. Her mother was Harriet Sheffield, daughter of the railroad magnate Joseph Earl Sheffield. Van Buren met Gennaro Vessicchio, also known as Gennaro di Castelmenardo, in Nice, France, where her brother Harold Sheffield Van Buren was a U.S. consul. Vessicchio represented himself as the count of Castelmenardo. The couple married in London on July 7, 1900 However, Vessicchio became indebted, losing money in Monte Carlo, and Van Buren learned that he was not actually a count. Wishing to legalise her married name and secure her status, she paid to procure her husband a genuine title of nobility, then learned that he was committing adultery. She had him jailed for adultery, then sued for separation and later divorce. Van Buren retained the title of Countess de Castelmenardo

Helena Zimmerman (25 September 1878 – 15 December 1971), was an American heiress who twice married into the British aristocracy, firstly to the 9th Duke of Manchester and then to the 10th Earl of Kintore. Helena was born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio on 25 September 1878. She was the only child of Eugene Zimmerman and wife Marietta (née Evans) Zimmerman, who died of peritonitis in 1882 when Helena was just four years old While attending a costume ball at a Brittany coast resort in Dinard, France, the twenty-one year old Helena met William Angus Drogo Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester, who was then twenty-three. He was the only son of the late 8th Duke of Manchester and his wife, the Cuban American heiress Consuelo Yznaga On 14 November 1900, they married at Marylebone Church in London without her father or his mother present. Reportedly, the Duke's mother did not believe reports of the marriage and "envinced extreme displeasure at the idea of her son marrying Miss Zimmerman." From their marriage, she was the mother of four The Duke's family, long prominent in British society and politics had little wealth left despite a $1,000,000 trust left for him by his mother (which she inherited from her brother, the banker Fernando Yznaga) This was compounded by the Duke's profligate gambling and spending on other women After rumors in 1908, and separation proceedings in 1915, 1921, and 1925 (when it was announced an estrangement had existed since 1914), they were eventually divorced in December 1931 after the Duke absconded to Cuba in November to apply for a divorce there. He remarried almost immediately to another American, the former actress Kathleen Dawes of Connecticut. The Duke died in Seaford, Sussex in February 1947 On 23 November 1937, The duch*ess of Manchester remarried to Arthur Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore. Lord Kintore, the second son of Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore (the Governor of South Australia in the 1890s) and the former Lady Sydney Montagu (second daughter of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester), fought in the Boer War between 1900 and 1902 with the Cameron Highlanders with the Scots Guard during World War I. Lord Kintore died in London on 26 May 1966. As they had no children together, her husband's older sister, Lady Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer (the wife of John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven) became the suo jure 11th Countess of Kintore.The Dowager Countess of Kintore died at Keith Hall in Inverurie on 15 December 1971 and was buried alongside her second husband at the Keith Hall Burial Ground in Inverurie.

Alice Van Bergen, became Countess Otto Grote

Gertrude Elliott (December 14, 1874 – December 24, 1950), later Lady Forbes-Robertson, was an American stage actress, part of an extended family of theatre professionals including her husband, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and her elder sister, Maxine Elliott. She was President of the Actresses' Franchise League in the UK. May Gertrude Dermott was born in Rockland, Maine Elliott's career on stage began in 1894, with a role in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, in a company that was touring New York state.Both Elliotts joined a company in San Francisco that toured Australia in 1896. The company was run by Nat C. Goodwin, an actor who soon married Maxine Elliott. Their company went to London in 1899, and the next year Elliott was hired into the company of Johnston Forbes-Robertson; Elliott and Forbes-Robertson married at the end of 1900, and continued to work together predominantly in Shakespearean works for much of their careers Elliott married English actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson in 1900. They had four daughters, including aircraft designer Maxine (Blossom) Miles, writer Diana Forbes-Robertson, and actress Jean Forbes-Robertson. Johnston was knighted in 1913, making Elliott "Lady Forbes-Robertson" from that time

Clara Eleanor Longworth de Chambrun, Comtesse de Chambrun (October 18, 1873 – June 1, 1954) was an American patron of the arts and scholar of Shakespeare. Longworth de Chambrun was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 18, 1873. She was a daughter of Nicholas Longworth and the former Susan Walker. She belonged to a wealthy family that was involved in Ohio politics. She was attendant at her cousin Margaret Rives Nichols's marriage to the Marquis Pierre de Chambrun (elder brother of diplomat and writer Charles de Chambrun) on December 12, 1895She married Count Aldebert de Chambrun, later General de Chambrun, a direct descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette on February 19, 1901 in Cincinnati. Aldebert was the French Military attaché in Washington, D.C. at one time, before serving as an artillery officer in World War I. He is reputed to have written his wife about the pleasure he had in shelling his own château, near Saint-Mihiel, with artillery as part of a six-week siege because it was occupied by German forces, though this later turned out to be a hoax They had 2 children

Ethel Newcomb Beatty, Countess Beatty (née Field; 1873 – July 17, 1932) was a socialite and a member of the aristocracy. The daughter of American millionaire Marshall Field, she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. Ethel was born in Cook County, Illinois in 1873. Her parents were Marshall Field (1834–1906), the founder of the American firm Marshall Field's, and his first wife, Nannie Douglas Scott (1840–1896). She had one full brother, Marshall Field Jr On January 1, 1891, Ethel married Arthur Magie Tree in an opulent ceremony held at the home of her parents, 1905 Prairie Avenue in Chicago Arthur was the son of American diplomat Lambert Tree and the former Anna Josephine Magie. Together, they were the parents of three children, only one of whom survived to adulthood While married to Tree, she had an affair with British captain David Beatty. Ethel wrote to her husband, telling him that it was her firm intention never to live with him again as his wife, though not naming any particular person or reason. Arthur agreed to co-operate, and filed for divorce in America on the grounds of desertion, which was granted May 9, 1901. Ten days after her divorce from Tree was made public, she was married to Captain Beatty on May 22, 1901, at the registry office, St. George's, Hanover Square in London with no family attending. They had 2 children

Florence Miller, became The Hon. Mrs William Arthur de la Poer Horsley-Beresford

Mary "Marie" Satterfield, became Countess Franz-Joseph Larisch von Moennich

Marie "Maria" Jennings Reid, previously Parkhurst, became Maria Rospigliosi, Princess Rospigliosi and duch*ess di Zagarolo

Helen Stuyvesant Morton became Countess Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, duch*ess de Valençay

Hazel Marie Singer became Princess Jean Ghika

Elena Maria Grace, became Elena Hely-Hutchinson, Countess of Donoughmore

Patricia Burnley Ellison, became Patricia Lockhart-Ross, Lady Lockhart-Ross

Charlotte "Carlota" Clayton, became Baroness Ludovic Moncheur

Wilhelmina Louisa Winans, became Wilhelmina Burrell, Lady Burrell

Ethel Louise Wyman, became Countess Hugo von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg

Henrietta "Rita" Bell became Countess Paul Raoul de Sauvan d'Aramon

Ruth Henderson became The Hon. Mrs Walter Patrick Lindsay

Maude Louise Lorillard, previously Tailer, became The Hon. Mrs Cecil Baring

Eveline "Eva" Barbey became Baroness André Poupart de Neuflize

Alice Cornelia Thaw became Alice Seymour, Countess of Yarmouth

Harriet Richmond Taylor became Harriet della Gherardesca, Countess della Gherardesca

Romaine Stone, previously Turnure, became Romaine Monson, Baroness Monson

Frances Whitehouse became Baroness Constantin Johan Edvard Axel Ramsay

Lilian Marie May became Lilian Bagot, Baroness Bagot

Mary "May" Goelet became Mary Innes-Ker, duch*ess of Roxburghe

Cornelia Roosevelt Scovel became Countess Riccardo Fabbricotti

Constance Livermore, aka Constance Livermore-Seillière became Countess Odon de Lubersac

Margot Marie Stone became Countess Alexander von Beroldingen

Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson became Countess Josef Gizycki

Martha "Marthe" Leishman became Countess Louis de Gontaut-Biron

Edythe Scott Grant became Countess Gaston de Breteuil

Marion Alice Graham, previously Knapp, became Marion Bateman-Hanbury, Baroness Bateman

Ruth Reilly Snyder became Countess Camille de Borchgrave d'Altena

Edith Oliver became Edith Dusmet de Smours, Marquise Dusmet de Smours

Margaret "Daisy" Hyde Leiter became Margaret Howard, Countess of Suffolk

Alice Blight became Alice Lowther, Lady Lowther

Anna Robinson became Anna St Clair-Erskine, Countess of Rosslyn

Beatrice Winans became Beatrice de Galard de Béarn, Princess de Béarn et de Chalais

Amy Phipps became The Hon. Mrs Frederick Edward Guest

Flora Bigelow, previously Dodge, became The Hon. Mrs Lionel George William Guest

Winifrede Baker became The Hon. Mrs Alexander FitzRoy St Clair-Erskine

Mildred Harrison became Countess Carl von Holnstein aus Bayern

Eloise Lawrence Breese became Eloise Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, Countess of Ancaster

Frances Donnelly, aka Frances Belmont became Frances Baring, Baroness Ashburton

Adelaide Douglas Randolph became The Hon. Mrs Lionel John Olive Lambart

Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis, previously Seymour, became Mary Falle, Baroness Portsea

Isabella Gamble Ross became Isabella Geddes, Baroness Geddes

Clara Lucile Potter became Clara Green-Price, Lady Green-Price

Marguerite Lewis became The Hon. Mrs Murrough O'Brien

Hermione Octavia Croghan Schenley became Hermione Law, Baroness Ellenborough

Madeleine Ives Goddard became Madeleine d'Andigné, Marquise d'Andigné

Winnifreda Yuill became Winnifreda Dawson-Damer, Countess of Portarlington

Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer became Countess Carl Poul Oscar Moltke

Antoinette MacDonough Converse became Baroness Maximilian Konrad von Romberg

Mary Elsie Moore became Mary Elsie Torlonia, Princess di Civitella-Cesi

Anne Breese became Lady Alastair Robert Innes-Ker

Amy McMillan became Amy Harrington, Lady Harrington

Edith Kip, previously McCreery, became The Hon. Mrs Henry Thomas Coventry

Irma Stern became Baroness Leo de Graffenried

Gladys Moore Vanderbilt became Countess László Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék

Florence Padelford became Florence Grosvenor, Baroness Ebury

Theodora Mary Shonts became Theodora d'Albert, duch*ess of Chaulnes

Alice Ney Wetherbee became Countess Rudolph Festetics de Tolna

Emily Bronaugh Barney became Baroness Johann Friedrich von Hiller

Jean Templeton Reid became Jean Ward, Lady Ward

Sarah Elizabeth Shindler, previously Stetson, became Elizabeth de Queirós de Almeida e Vasconcelos, Countess de Santa Eulalia

Ione "Iona" Wilhelmina Sutton Pickhardt, previously Shope, became Baroness Curt Loeffelholz von Colberg

Beatrice Mills became Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard

Margaret Muriel White became Countess Hermann von Seherr-Thoss

Josephine Kleiner, previously Schmid, aka Princess del Drago, became Josephine del Drago dei Principi del Drago, Marquise di Riofreddo

Beatrice Thaw became Beatrice Theodoli, Marquise Theodoli di San Vito

Hazel Martyn, previously Trudeau, became Hazel Lavery, Lady Lavery

Florence Louise Breckinridge became Florence Fermor-Hesketh, Baroness Hesketh

Anita Rhinelander Morris (August 7, 1886 – September 15, 1977) was an American socialite and heiress who married Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu, grandson of King Miguel I of Portugal, and the eldest son of Dom Miguel, Duke of Braganza, who was Miguelist claimant to the throne of Portugal from 1866 to 1920. Anita Rhinelander Stewart was born in Elberon, New Jersey, on August 7, 1886. She was the daughter of Anne "Annie" McKee Armstrong (1864–1925) and William Rhinelander Stewart, Sr. (1852–1929), a wealthy descendant of an old Knickerbocker family. Her father was an attorney who managed several trusts for his family. Her parents divorced in August 1906, and afterwards, her mother married Wall Street millionaire James Henry Smith Smith died in Japan in 1907 while on their honeymoon. Her mother then married New York socialite Jean de Saint Cyr (1875–1966) on April 25, 1915 On September 15, 1909, Stewart married Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu (1878–1923) at St. Lawrence's Catholic Church in Dingwall, Scotland, with the reception at Dingwall Castle On September 6, a week preceding her wedding, Franz Joseph I, the Emperor of Austria, bestowed the title of Prinzessin von Braganza (Princess of Braganza) on her, and in her own right, ensuring that Prince Miguel would not have to renounce his title Her husband was the eldest son of Prince Miguel, Duke of Braganza and Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis. In order to get the consent of his father to marry Anita, Prince Miguel had to renounce all claim to the throne of Portugal in favor of his younger brother, Prince Francis Joseph Out of this union, three children were born, all of whom used the title Prince or Princess until July 1920 when Prince Miguel renounced, for himself and his descendants, his rights of succession to the Portuguese throne In 1946, Anita married Lewis Gouverneur Morris II (1882–1967), the son of Francis Morris and Harriet Hall (née Bedlow) Morris, in New York City.Anita died at the age of 91, on September 15, 1977 (68 years to the day of her first marriage), at her home in Newport, Rhode Island

Susanne Henning became Susanne Charette de La Contrie, Marquise de Charette and Baroness de La Contrie

Olive Grace, previously Kerr, became Olive Greville, Baroness Greville

Irone "Irene" Hare became Irene, Viscountess de Beughem de Houtem

Ellen Touzalin, previously Nickerson, became Ellen Hood, Lady Hood

Harriot Holmes "Hattie" Daly became Countess Antal Sigray

Constance Hoyt became Baroness Ferdinand Carl von Stumm

Margaretta Armstrong Drexel became Margaretta Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham

Caroline Mildred Carter became Mildred Acheson, Countess of Gosford

Helen Agnes Post became Helen Eliot, Countess of St Germans

Dorothy Evelyn "Dolly" Deacon became Princess Albrecht Radziwiłł

Annah Dillon Ripley became Countess Pierre-Joseph de Salviac de Viel-Castel

Jane Morgan became Jane Vavasseur Fisher, Baroness Fisher

Lucie Marie Tate, previously Paine, became Lucie de Choiseul-Praslin, duch*ess de Praslin

Alys Elizabeth Carr, previously Chauncey, became Alys Bingham, Lady Bingham

Helen Vivien Gould became Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies

Clara Elizabeth Taylor, previously Stirling, became Lady George Hugo Cholmondeley

Elizabeth Tibbits Pratt (1860–1928), married first Amédée De Gasquet-James (became a widow) and married second on 15 June 1911 HH Duke Henry Borwin of Mecklenburg (1885–1942) (divorced in April 1913)

Natalie Oelrichs (1880–1931), daughter of Charles May Oelrichs She married first polo player Peter D. Martin of San Francisco (became widow) Married second in 1915 HH Duke Henry Borwin of Mecklenburg (1885–1942) (divorced in 1921)

Cathleen "Kitty" Wolff, aka Catherine Francisca "Kitty" Wolf, previously Spotswood, became Countess Erwein Ferdinand von Schönborn-Buchheim

Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis (née Lida Eleanor Nicolls; July 28, 1875 – December 6, 1965), also styled as Princess Lida of Thurn and Taxis, was an American millionairess, socialite, and the wife of Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis Born Lida Eleanor Nicolls in 1875 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of grocer John A. Nicolls and his wife Lenora T. Nicolls In 1899, she met her first husband, General Gerald Purcell Fitzgerald of Ireland They married in Los Angeles, California, late in 1899 In 1906, she obtained a divorce from Fitzgerald in Irish courts Lida married Prince Victor Theodore Maximilian Egon Maria Lamoral of Thurn and Taxis, third and youngest child of Prince Egon of Thurn and Taxis and his wife, Viktoria Edelspacher de Gyoryok, in a wedding ceremony at the home of her mother and presided over by the Reverend Mr. Spence on November 1, 1911, in Uniontown Following her marriage to Prince Victor, Lida announced that she and her husband would reside in Europe and she would never again return to the United States.Lida and Prince Victor later registered their marriage in Baltisar, Austria-Hungary in February 1912, where Prince Victor was a citizen by virtue of his father Prince Egon having become naturalized at the time of his marriage to his wife Viktoria Edelspacher de Gyoryok.While staying at a hotel in Ostend, Belgium, in July 1912, Lida was robbed of jewelry valued at $80,000. The robbery was thought to have been committed by "a gang of international sharpers" who were staying at the same hotel as Lida. However, American boxer Norman Selby (better known as "Kid McCoy") was arrested at the Hotel Cecil in London on July 27, 1912 on an extradition request by Belgian police in connection with the disappearance of the jewelry Josephine Moffitt (occasionally spelled Moffatt), who styled and titled herself "Her Royal Highness Josephine, Princess of Thurn and Taxis" and "Princess Josphine de la Tour et Taxis", claimed in the United Kingdom that she was the legal wife of Lida's husband, Prince Victor. Moffitt was embroiled in another highly publicized legal case against her "old friend and admirer" James Henry Maur heard in the Westminster Police Court and known popularly as "the Thurn and Taxis blackmailing case." Moffitt alleged that she and Prince Victor had wed at a midnight marriage ceremony at Rector's, New York City As early as March 1908, Prince Victor had informed The New York Times that its story of his marriage to Moffitt was "absolutely false". On January 31, 1914, Lida's solicitor applied for and obtained an issue of writ in the Court of Chancery asking for an injunction against Moffitt to restrain her from using the title "Princess of Thurn and Taxis" and from referring to herself as the wife of Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis Following the outbreak of World War I, Lida's husband Prince Victor was called to serve as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army causing Lida to return to the United States. Shortly before Lida was to sail to Europe to rejoin her husband in the Austrian Republic, Bernard Francis S. Gregory, known as "Count Gregory", filed a lawsuit against her for $50,000 in damages on May 8, 1920 in the New York Supreme Court alleging she had made false statements about him which had caused him to be "shunned by social circles" in New York City. Gregory received the order from Justice Robert Paul Lydon shortly after he learned from Lida's son Gerald Fitzgerald, Dr. Stewart Hastings, and Prince Herman of Saxe-Weimar that she was soon returning to Europe Gregory alleged in his complaint that in January or February 1920 at the Hotel Netherland in New York City, Count Rudolf Festetics overheard Lida telling others that Gregory was "a thief and a swindler and had tried to swindle her out of $10,000 by trying to put through a milk deal that was a swindle." Following the death of her husband Prince Victor in Vienna on January 28, 1928, Lida lived between residences in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Europe, however, she continued to maintain a residence at the corner of West Main Street and South Mt. Vernon Avenue in Uniontown. Lida's life continued to consist of further legal disputes regarding alimony and family matters

Mildred Constance Sherman became Mildred Stonor, Baroness Camoys

Diana Morgan Hill became Baroness Hardouin de Reinach-Werth

Marguerite Gilbert Caetani, Princess of Bassiano, duch*ess of Sermoneta (née Chapin; 24 June 1880 – 17 December 1963), was an American-born publisher, journalist, art collector, and patron of the arts. She married an Italian aristocrat and became the founder and director of the literary journals Commerce (fr) (in France) and Botteghe Oscure (in Italy). A daughter of Lelia Chapin (née Gilbert; 1857–1885) and Lindley Hoffman Chapin (1854–1896), Marguerite was born on 24 June 1880 in Waterville, Connecticut into a wealthy and cultured New England family After her mother's death in 1885, her father remarried to Cornelia Garrison Van Auken in 1888, with whom he had Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, a sculptor, Katherine Garrison Chapin (a poet who was the wife of the U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle), and Lindley Hoffman Paul Chapin (father of Schuyler Chapin, the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera). In 1911, she met, and married, the composer Roffredo Caetani [it] (1871-1961), Prince of Bassiano and last Duke of Sermoneta The couple settled in the villa Romaine in Versailles, and had two children

Kate "Kitty" Nelke became Countess Anton Apponyi de Nagy-Appony

Lela Amelia Alexander, previously Emery, became The Hon. Mrs Alfred Anson

Antoinette Heckscher became Antoinette Brett, Viscountess Esher

Constance Whitney Warren became Constance de Lasteyrie du Saillant, Marquise de Lasteyrie du Saillant

Margaret Eleanor Crosby became Margaret Vanneck, Baroness Huntingfield

Helena McDonald Stallo became Princess Michel Murat

Elinor Douglas Wise became Elinor Chapelle de Jumilhac, duch*ess de Richelieu

Myra Abigail "Abbie" Pankhurst, previously Pratt, became Princess Daria Karageorgevich

Carolyn Salome Foster, previously Stickney, became Princess Aymon de Faucigny-Lucinge

Nancy Louise Leishman became Nancy, duch*ess of Croÿ

Gladys Villiers McMillan became Countess Paul Cornet de Ways-Ruart

Mae Josephine Callicott, aka Mae Pickard or May Picard, became Mae Wellesley, Countess Cowley

Ethel Lynde Barbey, previously Norrie, became Countess Armand de Jumilhac

Laura McDonald Stallo became Laura Rospigliosi, Princess Rospigliosi

Gladys Virginia Steuart became Countess Gyula Apponyi de Nagy-Appony

Julia Fairchild Schreiner became Julia Greg, Lady Greg

Elizabeth Reid Rogers became Elizabeth, Baroness von Barchfeld

Ruth Morgan Waters became Princess Ludovico Pignatelli d'Aragon

Miriam Terry Crosby, aka Countess Miriam Caracciolo di Melito became Nobile Miriam Caracciolo dei Duchi di Melito

Eleanor "Norah" Hennessy became Eleanor Methuen, Baroness Methuen

Frances Evelyn "Fannie" Bostwick, previously Francis, became Countess Roger de Périgny

Emily Eleanor Sloane became Emily de La Grange, Baroness de La Grange

Ida May Swift became Ida Minotto, Countess Minotto

Marie Guidet Abeel Duryee became Countess Fal de Saint-Phalle

Grace Douglass Pierce became Grace Sandilands, Lady Torphichen

Margaret Preston Draper became Princess Andrea Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli, Marquise di Bucine

Catherine Britton became Princess Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Grace Elvina Hinds, previously Duggan, became Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston

Helen Margaret Kelly (1884 – August 2, 1952), also known as Princess Vlora of Albania during her third marriage, was an American socialite.She was born in 1884 to Edward Kelly. She was the granddaughter of Eugene Kelly, a wealthy banker. On December 1, 1901, she married Frank Jay Gould They had twin daughters, Helen Gould and Dorothy Gould (1904–69), but divorced in 1908. In 1910, she married Ralph Hill Thomas (1882–1914) the nephew of the president of American Sugar Refining Company On June 20, 1917, she married Prince Nuredin Vlora from Albania (belonging to the Albanian Vlora dynasty), they divorced in 1922 She married her fourth husband, Oscar M. Burke, president of the Manhattan Soap Company, on January 4, 1926. She died on August 2, 1952, in France

Margaret "Peggy" Rush became Peggy Brodrick, Viscountess Dunsford

Eva Buckingham Gebhard became Eva Gourgaud, Baroness Gourgaud

Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs (born Vernal Edna Andrews, November 24, 1893 – February 8, 1974) was an American actress, film director, script writer, and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen, she was one of the most popular and well-known actresses in German silent film. Vernal Edna Andrews was born in Watseka, Illinois, on November 24, 1893, the daughter of William P. Andrews and Sarah Emily Evett, also known as Sadie. Vernal was of English and Scottish descent on her father's side, while she was of English and German on her mother's. When William died in 1898, Sadie remarried Frank St. Clair, a vaudeville actor, circus performer and tight-rope walker. Andra was already appearing in public in a tightrope act by the age of four. She later trained in song and dance. As early as 1899, in New York, she made her first film, a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Fern Andra was married four times; all of the unions were childless:1. Baron Friedrich von und zu Weichs-Zur-Wenne (died in 1917), 2. Ian Keith[6] (February 15, 1934 – May 18, 1935, divorce) 3. Gen. Samuel Edge Dockrell (1938–1973; his death)

Nina Floyd Crosby, previously Eustis, became Nina de Polignac, Marquise de Polignac

Cecilia "Cécile" Ulman, previously Blumenthal, became Cécile de Talleyrand-Périgord, duch*ess of Montmorency

Nevada Stoody Hayes (21 October 1870 – 11 January 1941), sometimes called Nevada of Braganza, was an American socialite who became the wife of Infante Afonso of Braganza, Duke of Porto, whose nephew, Manuel II, was the last king of Portugal. She was the Princess Royal of Portugal, but never accepted as a member of the exiled Portuguese royal family, yet by Portuguese law her marriage to Afonso was legal. Nevada was born on 21 October 1870 in Sandyville, Ohio, to Jacob Walter Stoody and Nancy Miranda (née McNeal) Stoody Her first husband was inventor Lee Albert Agnew (1867-1924), whom she divorced in 1906. Despite the divorce, Agnew maintained warm feelings toward his former wife, and after he died on 31 January 1924,his will left her his estate's income not earmarked for the support of their son, Lee Albert "David" Agnew, Jr. (1903-1977) The day after her divorce from Agnew, Hayes married William Hayes Chapman (1834-1907), then in his early seventies. When he bequeathed her more than $8 million at his death a year later, the newspapers dubbed her "the $10 million widow". Nevada married for a third time to Philip Henry Van Volkenburgh, Jr. (1853-1949), a New York lawyer and banker, on November 23, 1909, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Shortly after their marriage, however, they separated and she took up residence in Pomfret, Connecticut, a state which required three years residency before a suit for divorce could be brought. In 1913, Philip had her served with divorce papers while she was at the Hotel Vanderbilt in New York City. In turn, she sued him, and the following year, she obtained an uncontested divorce from Volkenburgh in Putnam, Connecticut, on grounds of desertion in 1914 Her fourth and last husband was the Duke of Porto, Dom Afonso of Braganza (1865–1920), Infante of Portugal, whom she married morganatically on 26 September 1917 in Rome, and again in a civil ceremony on 23 November of that year in Madrid, under the name of Madame Nevada Stoody Hayes-Chapman Hayes began styling herself "Her Royal Highness, Nevada, the duch*ess of Porto", but the Portuguese royal family never recognized her as a member. Afonso tried to have his wife accepted by his family, but was rebuffed. Three years later, on 21 February 1920, at Naples, Italy, the duke died, without having ever renounced his rights to the throne. Hayes traveled from Italy to Portugal with the body of her late husband, and arranged for its installation in the Braganza pantheon in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon. Although the terms of a morganatic marriage exclude the surviving spouse from inheriting any of the titles or privileges that are the prerogatives of royalty (while the concept of morganatic marriage has never explicitly existed anywhere in Portugal), they do not exclude the survivor from inheriting property. In his will, Dom Afonso left his entire estate to Nevada Stoody Hayes. Nevada Stoody Hayes died at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Florida, in 1941, at age 70. After her death, the Foundation of the House of Bragança bought the painting "Battle of Cape St. Vincent", a Portuguese national treasure that had been included in her inheritance, depicting a victory of the fleet of Maria II of Portugal over the fleet of Miguel I of Portugal during the Liberal Wars. It is now located in the Maritime Museum in Lisbon.

Ethel Mary Crocker became Countess André de Limur

Olivia Pillsbury became Baroness Alfred de Ropp

Frances Simpson Stevens (1894 – July 18, 1976) was an American painter, who is best remembered as one of the few Americans to directly participate in the Futurist Movement Stevens was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois Stevens was briefly engaged to Marchese Salimbeni in Florence Italy, but the engagement was discontinued due to World War 1 and Stevens moving back to America. On April 19, 1919, Frances was married Prince Dimitry Golitzine (1882–1928), who was then the attaché to the Russian ambassador. The wedding was widely reported and American Art News identified him as a son of the last Prime Minister of Russia, Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn They had reportedly met at a dinner, when the Prince was attached to the Russian Embassy in Washington. They were married in a registrar's office Frances was latterly styled Princess Dimitry Golitzine. Frances was his second wife; his first wife was killed in 1918 in Russia, during the aftermath of the Russian Revolution Prince Dimitri Golitzine died on May 12, 1928, in Nice, France. Little is known about Stevens' life after her return to America. In 1961, she was admitted to Mendocino State Hospital in California and later died in a residential care home as a ward of the State of California on July 18, 1976.

Ava Lowle Lister, Baroness Ribblesdale (née Willing, later Astor; September 15, 1868 – June 9, 1958) was an American socialite. She was the first wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and later married Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale Ava Lowle Willing was born on September 15, 1868, in Newport, Rhode Island, to Edward Shippen Willing (1822–1906) and Alice Caroline Barton (1833–1903) On February 17, 1891, she married Colonel John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (1864–1912), son of William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1829–1892) and Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn (1830–1908), at her parents' mansion at 510 South Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though the marriage was tumultuous, the Astors had two children In 1909, after returning from England, Ava sued Jack for divorce on November 19, and four months later on March 5, 1910, the State of New York decreed in her favor On June 3, 1919, Ava married Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale at St Mary's, Bryanston Square in London and she was known as Lady Ribblesdale. Lister died six years later on October 21, 1925, at their townhouse on Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, London. They had no children together and after Baron Ribblesdale's death, she did not remarry. He was buried in the Lister vault at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Gisburn, Lancashire.

Edith Mary "Tookie" Mortimer became Countess Mario Panciera di Zoppola

Marie Emery Dow, previously Cary, became Baroness Emile de Cartier de Marchienne

Apolonia Chałupiec, aka Pola Negri, was 1st Countess Eugeniusz Dąmbski then Princess Serge Mdivani

Frances Alice Willing Lawrance became Princess Marie-André Poniatowski

Helene Georgia Harper became Countess Alexandre de Saint-Phalle

Mary Lawrence Post became Mary Wallop, Viscountess Lymington

Ruth King became Ruth de Villiers, Viscountess du Terrage

Eleanor May Guggenheim became Eleanor Stuart, Countess Castle Stewart

Gladys Marie Spencer-Churchill, duch*ess of Marlborough (née Deacon; 7 February 1881 – 13 October 1977) was a French American aristocrat and socialite. She was the mistress and later the second wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Born in Paris, Gladys Marie Deacon was the daughter of American citizens Edward Parker Deacon and his wife Florence, daughter of Admiral Charles H. Baldwin. In the late 1890s, the Duke of Marlborough invited Deacon to Blenheim Palace and she became friends with his wife Consuelo. In 1901, the Crown Prince of Prussia visited the palace and took a strong liking to her, giving her a ring that the Kaiser demanded be returned At the age of 22, Deacon underwent a plastic surgery attempt in which she had her nose injected with paraffin wax; it slipped to her chin, causing big lumps Deacon became the Duke's mistress soon after moving into the palace However, Marlborough and Consuelo did not divorce until 1921. Deacon and Marlborough were married in Paris later that year Artistic and a keen gardener, the new duch*ess of Marlborough had enlarged images of her startling blue-green eyes painted on the ceiling of the main portico of Blenheim Palace, where they remain today. Later in their unhappy, childless marriage, she kept a revolver in her bedroom to prevent her husband's entry As her behaviour became increasingly erratic, most noticeably following the Duke's conversion to Roman Catholicism, the couple began drifting apart. The duch*ess pursued her hobby of breeding Blenheim Spaniels, much to her husband's displeasure. Finally, the duke moved out of the palace, and two years later evicted her. He died in 1934 The Dowager duch*ess of Marlborough moved with her dogs first to north Oxfordshire and later to the Grange Farm at Chacombe. She started retreating from the world and eventually became a complete nocturnal recluse surrounded by cats. By 1962, she had become mentally ill, much like her father and paternal grandmother, and was forcibly moved to St Andrew's Hospital, where she died in 1977, aged 96

Clarissa Pelham Curtis became Princess Mikhail Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky

Edith Starr Miller became Edith Paget, Baroness Queenborough

Alice de Janzé (née Silverthorne; 28 September 1899 – 30 September 1941), also known as the Countess de Janzé during her first marriage and as Alice de Trafford during her second marriage, was an American heiress who spent years in Kenya as a member of the Happy Valley set of colonials. She was connected with several scandals, including the attempted murder of her lover in 1927, and the 1941 murder of the 22nd Earl of Erroll in Kenya. Her life was marked by promiscuity, drug abuse and several suicide attempts. Growing up in Chicago and New York, Silverthorne was one of the most prominent American socialites of her time. A relative of the wealthy Armour family, she was a multi-millionaire heiress. She married into the French nobility in 1921 when she wed Frédéric de Janzé, comte de Janzé. In the mid-1920s, she was introduced to the Happy Valley set, a community of white expatriates in East Africa, notorious for their hedonistic lifestyle. In 1927, she made international news when she shot her lover Raymond de Trafford in a Paris railway station and then turned the gun on herself; they both survived. Alice de Janzé stood trial and was fined a small amount, and later pardoned by the French state. She went on to marry, and later divorce, the man she shot. In 1941, she was one of several major suspects in the murder in Kenya of her friend and former lover, Lord Erroll. After several previous suicide attempts, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot in September 1941. Her personality has been referenced both in fiction and non-fiction, most notably in the book White Mischief and its film adaptation, where she was portrayed by Sarah Miles.

Evelyn Anne Gordon became Evelyn de Crussol, duch*ess de Crussol

Dorothy Evelyn "Dolly" Deacon, previously Radziwiłl, became Countess Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd

Marion Buckingham Ream became Countess Anastasy Vonsyatsky

Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell became Catherine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon

Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd Murat (November 11, 1891 – February 10, 1976) was an eccentric American heiress, dancer and sometime actress. She was the second daughter of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. (1859–1901) and Anne (née Harriman) Sands Rutherfurd (1861–1940) After her father's death in 1901, her mother remarried to William Kissam Vanderbilt, the first husband of Alva Erskine Smith. From her mother's marriage to Vanderbilt, she was a stepsister of Consuelo Vanderbilt After her marriage to Sir Paul Henry Dukes, Lady Dukes became involved in the New Thought Movement which was based in New York Margaret was married six times to four different men. On September 20, 1911, she married her first husband, Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937) at her stepfather's Château Du Quesney in Vatteville-la-Rue, France They divorced in Paris in May 1919 and he later became a U.S. Representative from New York and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury In 1922, she married Sir Paul Henry Dukes (1889–1967), in Nyack, New York. Dukes was a British MI6 officer who had been knighted by King George V in 1920, calling Dukes the "greatest of all soldiers". Among his siblings were playwright Ashley Dukes and the physician Cuthbert Dukes. After their marriage, the Dukes lived at 180 Riverside Drive in New York before divorcing in January 1929. In July 1929, she married Prince Charles Michel Joachim Napoléon (1892–1973) at the Church of St. Francois the Savior in Paris with Jacques Balsan (the second husband of her stepsister Consuelo) as a witness. Prince Charles, a son of Joachim, 5th Prince Murat and younger brother of Joachim, 6th Prince Murat, was a direct descendant of Joachim Murat who was crowned King of Naples by his brother-in-law Napoleon. They spent most of their marriage in Africa before they divorced in 1939 after she met her next husband painting flowers in her mother's garden. On October 25, 1939, she married portrait painter Frederick Leybourne Sprague (1907–1993) at a private ceremony in Lynbrook on Long Island Frederick was a son of Freeman Taylor Sprague of Manasquan, New Jersey. After the marriage, she dyed her hair pink, and lived a bohemian life in Camden, Maine. She divorced Sprague in Carson City, Nevada, in early 1941, only to turn around and marry him again, the second marriage lasting for less than a year. In 1945, she again married Prince Murat. They remained married until his death in Morocco in 1973. She died on February 10, 1976, aged 84, in Paris, France. She was buried alongside Prince Murat in the Murat family vault in Paris

Kathleen Emmet became Kathleen Feilding, Countess of Denbigh

Gwendolin Marshall Field became Gwendolin Edmonstone, Lady Edmonstone

Dorothy Caldwell Taylor, previously Grahame-White, became Countess Carlo Dentice di Frasso

Jessica Ruth Brown, previously Reinhard, became Jessica Carnegie, Countess of Northesk

Margaret Copley Thaw, previously Carnegie, became Countess Roger de Périgny

Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers (February 1, 1902 – January 1, 1953), better known as Millicent Rogers, was a socialite, heiress, fashion icon, jewelry designer and art collector. She was the granddaughter of Standard Oil tycoon Henry Huttleston Rogers, and an heiress to his wealth Rogers was born February 1, 1902. Her mother was Mary Benjamin, and her father was Henry Huttleston Rogers II, whose father was one of Rockefeller's partners in Standard Oil Rogers was married three times during the course of her life. Her first marriage was in January 1924 when she eloped with Austrian Count Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten, and they were married in a New York courtroom; she was 21 years old, and the groom was 38. A professional tennis player and an aspiring film actor through most of their short marriage, Salm-Hoogstraeten was characterized by The New York Times as "a gold-digging Austrian count" The couple had one son together: Peter Salm (1924–1994),but legally separated before the boy was born. Their divorce was finalized in April 1927.On November 8, 1927, she married Arturo Peralta-Ramos. They were married in the parish house of the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, Long Island, with only Rogers' father and a few friends in attendance.Approving of the marriage, Henry Huddleston Rogers II gave the couple a $500,000 trust fund, with the provision that Peralta-Ramos "lay no future claim to the Rogers fortune, estimated at $40,000,000."The couple had two children together: Arturo Henry Peralta-Ramos Jr. (1928-2015) and Paul Jaime Peralta-Ramos (1931-2003) Peralta-Ramos filed for divorce on December 6, 1935, with both parties citing "extreme cruelty." Rogers' third and final husband was Ronald Balcom, an American stockbroker. They were married in Vienna on February 26, 1936, and were divorced in February 1941.They had no children together.

Iris Margaret Cutting, became Iris Origo, Marquise di Val d'Orcia

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, later Cecil, later Bulkely-Johnson, later Goodsir (August 22, 1900 – February 7, 1976) was an American born heiress and member of the Vanderbilt family who inherited the Biltmore Estate. She was known for her eccentric behavior She was the daughter, and only child, of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958) On April 29, 1924, Cornelia was married to a British aristocrat who was then the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954), the son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Cecil, Baroness Amherst of Hackney.The Cecils were descendants of William Cecil. The nationally renowned organist from St. Louis Charles Henry Galloway played organ at the wedding. They divorced in 1934. They had 2 sons Around 1932, reportedly finding life at Biltmore too dull, she moved to New York City to briefly study art, leaving her husband to manage Biltmore. A few months later, she moved to Paris where she divorced her husband in 1934, dyed her hair bright pink, and changed her name to Nilcha After Paris, she moved to London, where she met and married Captain Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (1891–1968) in October 1949 Bulkeley-Johnson, the aide-de-camp to the 9th Duke of Devonshire when he was the Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1918, served in the offices of the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I and in the Air Ministry.They remained married until his death in 1968. One evening as she was having dinner with Edward Adamson in London, Cornelia met William Robert "Bill" Goodsir, their waiter with whom she fell in love. In 1972, Cornelia married for the third and final time to Goodsir (1926–1984), who was 26 years younger than she was

Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg (née Eleanor Margaret Green; November 5, 1895 – July 3, 1966) was an American who became a Princess in Denmark. By her marriage to Prince Viggo, Count of Rosenborg, Green became Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg. On November 5, 1895, Green was born as Eleanor Margaret Green in New York City, New York. Green's parents were Dr. James Oliver Green and Amelia Hewitt Green. Green's maternal grandfather was Abram S. Hewitt and her maternal great-grandfather was Peter Cooper. Green married Prince Viggo of Denmark, Viggo Christian Adolph George, son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and Princess Marie Amélie Françoise Hélène d'Orléans, on June 10, 1924, in New York City. Without the legally required permission of the Danish king for a dynastic marriage, Prince Viggo renounced his place in Denmark's line of succession to the Crown, his title of Prince of Denmark, and his style of Royal Highness as was customary in the Danish royal house upon marriage to a commoner. Before the wedding Viggo, with the king's authorisation, assumed the title of His Highness Prince Viggo, Count of Rosenborg. In connection with the marriage and her husband's new title, Eleanor Margaret Green became Her Highness Princess Viggo, Countess of Rosenborg They had no children

Barbara Murray became Barbara Stuart, Countess of Moray

Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay (née Hoyt; 16 October 1885 – 3 September 1954) was an American landscape gardener, American Red Cross executive during the First World War and wife of British diplomat Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay. Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt and Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay married in 1924. Lady Lindsay was born Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, the daughter of the American financier and industrialist Colgate Hoyt (1849–1922); her mother, Lida Sherman, was the daughter of Charles Taylor Sherman and the niece of the Civil War general William Tec*mseh Sherman and of John Sherman, who served as both Secretary of State as well as United States Secretary of the Treasury Hoyt married Ronald Charles Lindsay, the widower of her cousin, in the chapel of Stepleton House, at Blandford, Elizabeth Cameron's home in Dorset, England. There were no children from either of Sir Ronald's marriages.

Valerie "Valérie" Norrie became Valérie Pozzo di Borgo, duch*ess Pozzo di Borgo

Ava Alice Muriel Astor (July 7, 1902 – July 19, 1956) was an American heiress, socialite, and member of the Astor family. She was the daughter of John Jacob Astor IV and Ava Lowle Willing, and sister of Vincent Astor and half-sister of John Jacob Astor VI. Ava Astor was born on July 7, 1902, in Manhattan, New York City. She was the only daughter of Colonel John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (1864–1912) who died in the sinking of the Titanic and Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958). On July 24, 1924, Ava Astor married Prince Sergei Platonovich "Serge" Obolensky, son of General Platon Sergeyevich Obolensky and Maria Konstantinovna Naryshkina, at Savoy Chapel in London. The marriage was considered the event of the season in England that year. Before divorcing Serge in 1932, they had two children On January 21, 1933, she married Raimund von Hofmannsthal (1906–1974), son of Gertrud Schlesinger and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Austrian poet, novelist, librettist, and dramatist. He was said to be the father of Sylvia.The couple was married in the city court of Newark, New Jersey They had a daughter From 1936 to 1937, she had an affair with English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988), despite the fact that he was gay. After the affair ended, her love for him continued, though she had two subsequent marriages Ava and Raimund eventually divorced in 1939, and Raimund later married Lady Elizabeth Paget (a daughter of Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey) On March 27, 1940, she married Philip John Ryves Harding (1906–1972), a journalist, in Faversham, England.[14] At the time of their wedding, Harding, a cousin of Maxwell Eley, was serving with an anti-aircraft battery in the British Army. Before their divorce in 1945, they had one daughter On May 12, 1946, she had her fourth and final marriage to David Pleydell-Bouverie (1911–1994), the grandson of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor, in Reading, Vermont.

Constance Crowninshield Coolidge (January 4, 1892 – April 30, 1973), was a Boston Brahmin (a member of Boston's upper society), socialite, heiress and a long-term American expatriate living in Paris.She had the pedigree of the most elite Boston Brahmin: she was a descendant of the Adams, Amory, Coolidge, Copley, Crowninshield, and Peabody families, all of them well known in Boston's high society. She was a distant relative of Calvin Coolidge. Constance was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 4, 1892. She was a daughter of landscape architect, David Hill Coolidge and Harriet Sears (née Crowninshield) Coolidge (1869–1905) While in Paris studying languages, eighteen year-old Constance met fellow Bostonian Ray Atherton who was studying architecture at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Atherton asked her father for permission to marry, but Coolidge insisted they wait a year. Nevertheless, Atherton persisted and while the Coolidges were touring Germany, he obtained a marriage license and when they returned to Paris, Constance and Ray were married Following her divorce from Atherton, she became engaged to the former polo player, Antoine Clément Marie Pierre Chapelle de Jumilhac, also known as Count Pierre de Jumilhac, a member of one of the oldest noble families of Brittany. They married on October 11, 1924, and she became Comtesse de Jumilhac. he marriage to the Count did not last, and they divorced in Paris in May 1929 Constance remarried twelve months later and Count de Jumilhac died two years later on October 18, 1932, following a long illness After her second divorce, Constance visited her parents who had relocated to Santa Barbara. Shortly after, she met Eliot Rogers and their marriage was announced by The New York Times on February 26, 1930, with the headline "Countess Wed on Coast". Eliot was the brother of author Cameron Rogers and a nephew of Chicago banker Charles Fernald and Reginald Fernald, the owner of the Santa Barbara Morning Press. She returned to France with Eliot, however, by November 1933, the papers referred to Constance by her maiden name, since her marriage to newspaper owner Eliot had ended in divorce In 1934, she met the writer H. G. Wells, twenty-five years her senior, with whom she conducted a passionate affair in the last decade of his life. By the time she was forty years of age, she was juggling multiple relationships with H.G. Wells, Philippe Barrès, the editor of Paris Match and Paris Soir, and the recently widowed William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp who asked her hand in marriage in 1936. During the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, she invited Wallis Simpson to stay with her in Paris, and was a guest at their wedding. Constance remained at the center of social events and was friends with Ernest Hemingway and Wallis Simpson. In the 1950s she married André William Magnus (March 13, 1908 – April 21, 2001), a public relations manager in the French Film Industry and spent most of the rest of her life in Paris Constance died at the American Hospital in Paris on April 30, 1973, and her husband, André scattered her ashes in a vault situated on the top of a hill in the Père Lachaise Cemetery

Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway (née Philippa Fendall Wendell) (June 24, 1905 – February 2, 1974), was an American heiress who married into the Scottish aristocracy. Philippa was born on June 24, 1905. She was the second daughter of Marian (née Fendall) Wendell (d. 1949) and Jacob Wendell III (d. 1911), of New York and Sandridgebury, Sandridge, Hertfordshire Her elder sister, Catherine Wendell, was the first wife of Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon On 14 October 1924, Philippa married Randolph Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway at St Margaret's, Westminster They had 2 children

Margaret Clarke became Margaret Caracciolo, Princess di Castagneto and duch*ess di Melito

Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. Swanson was born in Chicago and raised in a military family that moved from base to base. Wallace Beery and Swanson married on her 17th birthday on March 27, 1916, but by her wedding night she felt she had made a mistake and saw no way out of it. She filed for divorce, which was finalized on December 12, 1918 Under California law in that era, after a divorce was granted, there was a one-year waiting period before it became finalized so that either of the parties could remarry She married Herbert K. Somborn on December 20, 1919. He was at that time president of Equity Pictures Corporation and later the owner of the Brown Derby restaurant Their daughter, Gloria Swanson Somborn, was born on October 7, 1920. In 1923, she adopted one-year-old Sonny Smith, whom she renamed Joseph Patrick Swanson after her father During their divorce proceedings, Somborn accused her of adultery with 13 men, including Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan Somborn was granted a divorce in Los Angeles, on September 19, 1923 During the production of Madame Sans-Gêne, Swanson met her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise (commonly known as Henri de la Falaise) Though Henri was a Marquis and related to the famous Hennessy cognac family, he had no personal wealth. She had conceived a child with him before her divorce from Somborn was final, a situation that would have led to a public scandal and possible end of her film career. She had an abortion, which she later regretted. They married on January 28, 1925, after the Somborn divorce was finalized Following a four-month recuperation from her abortion, they returned to the United States as European nobility. Swanson now held the title of Marquise This marriage ended in divorce in 1930 In spite of the divorce they remained close, and Falaise became a partner in her World War II efforts to aid potential scientist refugees fleeing from behind Nazi lines Swanson described herself as a "mental vampire", someone with a searching curiosity about how things worked, and who pursued the possibilities of turning those ideas into reality While still married to Henri, Swanson had a lengthy affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of future President John F. Kennedy After the marriage to Henri and her affair with Kennedy was over, Swanson became acquainted with Michael Farmer, the man who would become her fourth husband. They met by chance in Paris when Swanson was being fitted by Coco Chanel for her 1931 film Tonight or Never. Farmer was a man of independent financial means who seemed not to have been employed. Rumors were that he was a gigolo. Swanson began spending time with him She was not interested in marrying Farmer, but he did not want to break off the relationship. When Farmer found out she was pregnant, he threatened to go public with the news unless she agreed to marry him, something she did not want to do. Her friends, some of whom openly disliked him, thought she was making a mistake. They married on August 16, 1931, and separated 2 years later. Because of the possibility that Swanson's divorce from La Falaise had not been finalized at the time of the wedding, she was forced to remarry Farmer the following November, by which time she was four months pregnant with Michelle Bridget Farmer, who was born on April 5, 1932 Swanson and Farmer divorced in 1934 after she became involved with married British actor Herbert Marshall. The media reported widely on her affair with Marshall After almost three years with the actor, Swanson left him once she became convinced he would never divorce his wife Edna Best, for her. In an early manuscript of her autobiography written in her own hand decades later, Swanson recalled "I was never so convincingly and thoroughly loved as I was by Herbert Marshall." Davey was a wealthy investment broker whom Swanson met in October 1944 while she was appearing in A Goose for the Gander. They married January 29, 1945 Swanson had initially thought she was going to be able to retire from acting, but the marriage was troubled by Davey's alcoholism from the start. Erratic behavior and acrimonious recriminations followed Davey moved out. In the subsequent legal separation proceedings, the judge ordered him to pay Swanson alimony. In an effort to avoid the payments, Davey unsuccessfully filed for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty. He died within a year, not having paid anything to Swanson, and left the bulk of his estate to the Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund Swanson's final marriage occurred in 1976 and lasted until her death. Her sixth husband William Dufty was a writer who worked for many years at the New York Post, where he was assistant to the editor from 1951 to 1960. He was the co-author (ghostwriter) of Billie Holiday's autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, the author of Sugar Blues, a 1975 best-selling health book still in print, and the author of the English version of Georges Ohsawa's You Are All Sanpaku They met in the mid-1960s and moved in together. After Swanson's death, Dufty returned to his former home in Birmingham, Michigan. He died of cancer in 2002

Reine Marie Tracy, previously Stewart became Countess Raoul de Roussy de Sales

Katherine Louise Nickerson became Katherine James, Baroness Northbourne

Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963. A member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature. Through her marriage to an Italian prince, she became princess of San Faustino in 1925, and a member of American royalty. Sage was born in Albany, New York, into a family made wealthy from the timber industry Sage met a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, in Rome around 1923 and fell in love with him, believing at first, as she wrote to a friend in 1924, that he was "me in another form."They married on March 30, 1925

Dorothy Gould Burns (March 24, 1904 – July 6, 1969), known as Baroness Dorothy de Graffenried de Villars, was the subject of a court case concerning when a United States citizen who lives overseas has undergone expatriation or has become a dual national and thus still subject to United States taxation.Dorothy Gould was born in New York City in 1904 to Frank Jay Gould and Helen Margaret Kelly. Her parents divorced and her father remarried twice, including to Florence La Caze whom he married in 1923 and remained married until his death in 1956. Her sister, Helen Marguerite Gould, was the wife of Raymond, Baron of Montenach. On May 5, 1925, she married a Swiss citizen, Baron Roland Graffenried de Villars (1899–1978) in Paris at a private ceremony at the Church of Notre Dame de Passy Roland was the second son of Baron Eduard Anton Friedrich Paul Maria Graffenried de Villars and Laure Therese Marie de Chollet. Before their divorce in 1936, they had two daughters During this period she traveled as a citizen of the United States using a United States passport which expired in 1934. The United States Department of State refused to renew her United States passport, so she traveled under an "affidavit in lieu of passport" issued by the American Consulate in Switzerland. When the Germans occupied France, she returned to the United States in 1941 on a newly issued United States passport. She remained only briefly and entered Cuba where she met her second husband, Archibald Burns, a Mexican national of Scottish parents. She traveled with him to Mexico where they married in 1944. He might have been a polo player

Constance Grenelle Wilcox became Princess Guido Pignatelli

Anita Hegeler Griswold (née Lihme), formerly Princess Edouard Josef de Lobkowicz (4 November 1903 – 14 May 1976) was an American golfer, businesswoman, and real estate broker. She served as vice president of Douglas Gibbons-Hollyday & Ives. Through her first marriage, she was a princess of the House of Lobkowicz, a Bohemian noble family.Lihme was born on November 4, 1903, in Chicago to Olga (née Hegeler) Lihme and C. Bai Lihme On 29 August 1925, Lihme married Prince Edouard Josef de Lobkowicz (1899–1959) in a Catholic ceremony at Watch Hill Union Chapel in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. He was a son of the former Countess Irma Pálffy von Erdöd, Baroness von Újezd, of Bohemia and Prince August von Lobkowicz, Privy Counselor and Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Franz Josef Before Prince Edward's death in Freiburg, Germany, in January 1959, they were the parents of three children, two boys and a girl After the death of her first husband, Anita married Erwin Hoy Watts, at St. Vincent Ferrer's Church in Manhattan in May 1960 Watts, a son of Ridley Watts and descendant of Henry Grinnell who had served with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, won the Croix de Guerre for heroism as a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France. After the war he joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration that aided displaced persons in Greece Watts, who had previously been married to Alice Wheelock and Elizabeth S. Peet, died in 1964. On 15 January 1972, Lihme married a third time to American business executive John Carroll Griswold in an ecumenical ceremony at Brick Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. The ceremony, a joint Catholic and Presbyterian wedding, was performed by Monsignor James G. Wilders of St. Thomas More Catholic Church and the Rev. Dr. Victor L. Baer of Brick Presbyterian. Griswold, a son of Harry Ross Griswold, was the founder and president of Griswold & Co., an insurance brokerage company that was acquired by Marsh & McLennan. At the time of their wedding, he was a senior vice president and director of Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co., Inc. investment bankers and brokers From his first marriage to Marguerite Bessire, he was the father of a son, David Ross Griswold and a daughter, Mrs. John Vincent Earl She died on May 14, 1976, at her home, 50 East 77th Street in New York City

Aimée Isabella Crocker (December 5, 1864 – February 7, 1941) was an American mystic, Bohemian, author, and member of the wealthy Crocker family. She was known for her cultural exploration of the Far East, for her extravagant parties in San Francisco, New York and Paris, and her collections of husbands and lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, pearls, tattoos, and snakes. Crocker was born Amy Isabella Crocker on December 5, 1864, in Sacramento, California, to Judge Edwin B. Crocker and his second wife Margaret (née Rhodes). Crocker was the sixth child in a family of four girls, two boys, and a half sister. In 1875, the ten-year-old Crocker inherited $10 million (approximately $277,455,000 today) when her father "E.B" died. In 1880, her mother Margaret decided to send the boy-crazy Amy to a finishing school in Dresden, Germany. There she was presented at court and had her first love affair and engagement with Prince Alexander of Saxe Weimar. Crocker broke off the engagement and quickly had a brief entanglement with a Spanish bullfighter. In 1883, Crocker made headlines when she was traveling to Los Angeles on her honeymoon with first husband, Porter Ashe. The train carrying the eloping couple broke loose at the summit of a hill in Tehachapi, killing twenty one people and seriously injuring another twelve. Ashe, whose forefathers had given their name to Asheville, North Carolina and whose uncle was the great Civil War Admiral David Farragut, was credited with pulling people to safety. Not long after the birth of their daughter, Alma, Crocker and Ashe's marriage collapsed. Ashe plunged into a score of speculations, none of which proved successful. He spent a small fortune on horse racing studs, and then sold off many of them to settle gambling debts. His friendship with actress Lillie Langtry was the source of much gossip The breakup of Crocker's first marriage became a national scandal after Porter and his brother, Sidney, kidnapped Alma in Los Angeles, while Crocker and her mother attended a wedding. Charges and counter charges made daily news during the custody battle. Courthouse proceedings attracted a crowd of hundreds. In spite of Ashe's reputation as a notorious gambler, his kidnapping charge and a weapons charge, he was awarded sole custody of Alma. Crocker was considered the more unsettled of the pair. The child was later adopted by Crocker's mother who changed her name to Gladys After the public humiliation of losing her child to her ex-husband, Crocker decided to accept an invitation that she had received years earlier by King Kalākaua to tour Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands. Kalākaua was so enamored with Crocker that he gave her one of his islands and an official title: Princess Palaikalani—Bliss of Heaven.  She found an occasional traveling companion in her second husband, Henry Mansfield Gillig, whom she married in 1889. Gillig was a Commodore, a prestidigitator, and a respected amateur opera singer who cultivated his voice under the Polish master Jean de Reszke During her marriage to Gillig, Crocker had several affairs with powerful Asian men, which were chronicled in her memoirs Crocker met her third husband, songwriter Jackson Gouraud, at a Buddhist colony that she organized (said to be the first in Manhattan). Gouraud wrote the ragtime melodies “Keep Your Eye on Your Friend, Mr. Johnson,” “She's a 'Spectable Married Colored Lady,” “I'se Workin'—I'se Hustlin,” “He's My Soft Shell Crab on Toast,” and “My Jetney Queen.” He set the town singing with the broadly comic number-one hit of his song writing career, “Waldorf-Hyphen-Astoria.” Marrying a showman was controversial at the time to her family and peers as Jackson was considered an "upper servant" at best and beneath the dignity of New York high society. Jackson's father, George Edward Gouraud, was himself an internationally known figure who acted as an agent for Thomas Edison in Europe. He helped found the Edison Telephone Company of London, and a number of European companies using Edison's technology. After Gouraud's death, Crocker was romantically linked to many high-profile men including: Eduardo García-Mansilla, the great Argentinean musician, composer and diplomat Though she kept the name Gouraud for the rest of her life, Crocker went on to marry and divorce two more times, both to Russian princes decades younger than her. Her fourth husband, Alexander Miskinoff, caused a stir on two continents when he was accused of having an extramarital affair with Crocker's then 15-year-old adopted daughter, Yvonne. Aimée would marry her fifth and final husband, Prince Mstislav Galitzine, when she was 61 and he was 26. When asked by a friend who lost count of her marriages whether Mstislav was her fifth or sixth husband, she said, “The prince is my twelfth husband if I include in my matrimonial list seven Oriental husbands, not registered under the laws of the Occident.

Marion "Polly" Hubbard Powers, became Nobile Marion Dusmet de Smours dei Duchi Dusmet de Smours

Helen Reid became Baroness Jean de Lustrac

Ella "Elsie" Anderson De Wolfe became Elsie Mendl, Lady Mendl

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (née Morgan, 23 August 1904 – 29 January 1970), was a mistress of King Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. She was supplanted in his affections by Wallis Simpson, for whose sake Edward abdicated, becoming the Duke of Windsor. She was the maternal aunt of the writer, fashion designer, and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. During most of Furness's relationship with the Prince of Wales, she was married to British nobleman Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness. They married in 1926 and divorced in 1933, the year before Thelma's relationship with the Prince of Wales ended. Furness's first name was pronounced in Spanish fashion as "TEL-ma" Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, Thelma Morgan was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr. (1860–1933), an American diplomat who was U.S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick (1869–1956). Married in 1893, they were divorced in 1927. Morgan's first husband was James Vail Converse (1893–1947), a grandson of Theodore N. Vail, former president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). They were married in Washington, D.C., on 16 February 1922 when she was 17 years old; Converse was about a decade older and had been married before. They divorced in Los Angeles, California, on 10 April 1925. By this marriage she had one stepson, James Vail Converse Jr. (born 18 January 1918), her husband's son from his first marriage to Nadine Melbourne. After the divorce, Morgan was rumored to be engaged to the American actor Richard Bennett, the matinée-idol father of Hollywood film stars Constance Bennett, Joan Bennett, and Barbara Bennett Morgan's second husband was Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness (1883–1940), the chairman of Furness Shipping Company. She was his second wife. They were married on 27 June 1926, and divorced in 1933.They had one son, William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness, and as the former wife of a British nobleman she was known as Thelma, Viscountess Furness By this marriage she also had a stepson, Christopher Furness, and a stepdaughter, Averill Furness. Furness first met the Prince of Wales at a ball at Londonderry House in 1926[15] but they did not meet again until the Leicestershire Agricultural Show at Leicester on 14 June 1929 Edward asked her to dine and they met regularly until she joined him on safari in East Africa early in 1930, when a closer relationship developed. On Edward's return to Britain in April 1930 she was his regular weekend companion at the newly acquired Fort Belvedere until January 1934. She also entertained him at her London home, in Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, and the Furness country house, Burrough Court, in Leicestershire On 10 January 1931 at her country house Burrough Court, near Melton Mowbray, Furness introduced the prince to her close friend Wallis Simpson and, while visiting her sister Gloria in America between January and March 1934, she was supplanted in the Prince's affection by Simpson Reacting to Edward's coldness later that year she threw herself into a short-lived affair with Prince Aly Khan. She had openly flirted with Khan during her voyage back to the UK in March 1934 which was reported to the Prince of Wales and widely reported in the British and American press including the social gossip magazine Tatler. While Furness was in the US with Aly Khan, Wallis Simpson stayed in her Mayfair home, 22 Farm Street, and entertained the Prince of Wales there Furness' identical twin sister was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, who was married to Reginald Vanderbilt and had a daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt. This makes her a maternal great-aunt of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

Marie Adrienne Koenig, aka Mae Murray, became Princess David Mdivani

Marian Berry, became Marian Chigi Albani della Rovere, Princess Chigi Albani della Rovere

Anna Audrey Emery (January 4, 1904 – November 25, 1971) was an American heiress and socialite who was the wife of one of the last Russian grand dukes. Audrey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 4 January 1904. She was the youngest daughter of John Josiah Emery (1835–1908), a real-estate millionaire, and his wife, the former Lela Amelia Alexander (1867–1953) After her father's death, her mother remarried to the Hon. Alfred Anson, a British stockbroker living in New York City, in 1912 Her romantic attachments, including an involvement in summer 1926 with the popular novelist Michael Arlen, attracted press attention In November 1926, she married, morganatically, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891–1942), an exile after the 1917 Russian Revolution The Grand Duke, a son of Grand Duke Paul and the late Princess Alexandra of Greece, was a grandson of both Tsar Alexander II of Russia and King George I of Greece. Dmitri's cousin, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia, elevated Audrey to Russian rank of knyaginya (a noble, not dynastic "princess") with the usual name Romanovsky and granted her the suffix, Ilyinsky, from Dmitri's former property at Ilyinskoye in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia Before their eventual divorce in 1937, she was the mother of one son Prince Paul Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (1928–2004), who became an American citizen, served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and was a three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida After her divorce, Audrey moved to France with her son, marrying that same year to Georgian Prince Dimitri Djordjadze (1898–1985) Audrey and Djordjadze also divorced. After the end of both marriages, she resumed her maiden name and was known as Mrs. Audrey Emery.

Rosalie Hooker, previously Dixon, aka Princess Melikov de Somhetie became Princess Levan Melikov

Monica Maude Avery became Countess Gaston de Galard de Béarn, Countess de Béarn

Jeanne Jacqueline Harper became Countess André-Marie de Saint-Phalle

Margaret Rockefeller Strong became Doña Margaret Strong Rockefeller de Cuevas Bartholín, Marquise de Piedrablanca de Guana, aka Marquise de Cuevas

Elaine Wilhelmine Daniels Willcox became Princess Balthazar Gyalma Odescalchi

Emily Purdon Hall became Baroness Maximilian Edmund von Romberg

Marie Seton became Nobile Marie Sommaripa dei Signori di Paro e Andro

Eleanor Jenckes Roelker, previously Tweed, became Countess Paul Pálffy ab Erdöd

Marguerite Watson, became Princess Charles-Philippe d'Orléans, duch*ess of Nemours

Beatrice Claflin, previously Breese, became Beatrice Acheson, Countess of Gosford

Estelle Bernadotte (born Estelle Romaine Manville; September 26, 1904 – May 28, 1984), Countess of Wisborg (1928–1973), also known as Estelle Ekstrand (from 1973), was an American-Swedish countess who was a leading figure in the International Red Cross and Girl Scout movement. She married Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish member of a United Nations mediating team. He was assassinated by the extremist Zionist Stern gang while on duty in Israel in September 1948 Estelle Romaine Manville was born in 1904 in Pleasantville, New York. She was the only daughter of American industrialist Hiram Edward Manville and wife Henrietta Estelle Romaine, members of a family that had founded parts of the Johns Manville corporation In 1928, she was married to the Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte According to members of the Bernadotte family, King Gustaf V of Sweden personally introduced Estelle Manville to his nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, during a visit to Nice, France, in the summer of 1928. On August 3, 1928, it was widely reported that Mr. and Mrs. Manville officially announced the engagement of their only daughter to Count Folke Bernadotte. The wedding took place on December 1, 1928, in the rather small St. John's Episcopal Church in Pleasantville, New York.Bernadotte lived her later years in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. She was survived by two sons and her second husband Carl Erik Sixten Ekstrand (1910-1988). They were married on March 3, 1973 at Oscar's Church in Stockholm. Bernadotte died in 1984 in Uppsala after long illness (sepsis) following hip surgery.Her ashes were buried on June 20, 1984, in an unmarked section of the memorial field at the Norra begravningsplatsen cemetery in Solna, north of Stockholm. Her name Estelle Bernadotte of Wisborg appears as her written signature on the memorial plaque of her first husband, Count Folke Bernadotte, at the same cemetery

Ruth Brady became The Hon. Mrs Michael Simon Scott

Allene Tew, previously Burchard, became Princess Heinrich Reuss zu Köstritz then Countess Pavel Kotzebue

Caroline Kent became Caroline Nicolis, Countess di Robilant e Cereaglio

Mary Cecelia "Cecilia" Clark became Baroness James-Ferdinand Baeyens

Marion Caher Donoghue, previously Edwards became Marion Butler, Countess of Carrick then Marion Butler, Countess of Carrick

Louise Hollingsworth Morris Clews became The Hon. Mrs Andrew Nicholas Armstrong Vanneck, then Louise Campbell, duch*ess of Argyll

Mary McCormic (November 11, 1889 – February 10, 1981) was an American operatic soprano and a professor of opera at the University of North Texas College of Music (1945–1960).Born in Belleville, Arkansas, and raised in Dardanelle, Arkansas and Ola, Arkansas, McCormic, was known growing up as Mamie Harris. She 1st married Kenneth Joseph Rankin During their marriage, they had a daughter She 2nd married Chester Adrian Macormic This marriage ended in divorce — Chester, a reputed Chicago mob lawyer, was Mary's "second husband." However, Mary described the marriage as a "sham" in Liberty magazine. The marriage occurred in secret in Kalamazoo. Chester later revealed that the marriage was not valid because it took place while both were married to others. Chester had married Ava in 1908. Mary began using the name McCormic after a Chicago Civic Opera employee misspelled Macomic Her 3rd marriage was to Prince Serge
M'Divani They married April 27, 1931, Phoenix, Arizona; divorced November 14, 1933, Los Angeles County Her 4th and last marriage was to Homer V. Johannsen Married November 25, 1936, Kansas City, Missouri; divorced July 14, 1937

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best remembered for her leading roles in What Price Hollywood? (1932), Bed of Roses (1933), Topper (1937), Topper Takes a Trip (1938), and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman (1941). She was the daughter of stage and silent film star Richard Bennett Bennett was born in New York City, the eldest of three daughters of actress Adrienne Morrison and actor Richard Bennett. Bennett was married five times and had three children. On June 15, 1921, Bennett eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, a student at the University of Virginia They were married by a justice of the peace in Greenwich, Connecticut. Bennett was 16 at the time The marriage was annulled in 1923 Bennett's next serious relationship was with millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant. Her parents planned a cruise to Europe, taking Constance with them, to separate the couple. As the ship was preparing to leave port, however, the Bennetts saw Plant and his parents boarding, too. In November 1925, the two eloped and were married in Greenwich, Connecticut, by the same justice of the peace who officiated at Bennett's wedding to Moorehead. They divorced in a French court in 1929 In 1932, Bennett returned from Europe with a three-year-old child, whom she claimed to have adopted and named Peter Bennett Plant (born 1929). In 1942, however, during a battle over a large trust fund established to benefit any descendants of her former husband, Bennett announced that her adopted son actually was her natural child by Plant, born after the divorce and kept hidden to ensure that the child's biological father did not get custody. During the court hearings, the actress told her former mother-in-law and her husband's widow that "if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant." The matter was settled out of court. In 1931, Bennett made headlines when she married one of Gloria Swanson's former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise, a French nobleman and film director. She and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the Hollywood films shot in the two-strip Technicolor process, Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) filmed on location in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936), filmed in Indochina. The couple divorced in Reno, Nevada in 1940 Bennett's fourth marriage was to actor Gilbert Roland. They were married in 1941 and had two daughters, Lorinda "Lynda" and Christina "Gyl". They divorced in 1946, with Bennett winning custody of their children. Later that year, Bennett married for the fifth and final time to US Air Force Colonel John Theron Coulter. After her marriage, she concentrated her efforts on providing relief entertainment to US troops still stationed in Europe, winning military honors for her services. Bennett and Coulter remained married for the rest of her life. Bennett supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election On July 24, 1965, shortly after filming of Madame X was completed, Bennett collapsed and died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 60. In recognition of her military contributions, and as the wife of John Theron Coulter, who had achieved the rank of brigadier general, she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Coulter died in 1995 and was buried with her.

Jacqueline Melanie Stewart became Countess Giovanni Guido Carlo Cardelli

Renee Thornton, previously Hageman, became Renee Carafa, duch*ess d'Andria e Castel del Monte

Katherine Schuyler Garrison became Katherine Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford

Adele Astaire Douglass (born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981) was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine, Astaire built a successful performance career with her younger brother, Fred Astaire.Adele Marie Austerlitz was born on September 10, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska Her parents were Johanna "Ann" Geilus, an American-born Lutheran of German descent, and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz, an Austrian-born Roman Catholic of Jewish descent After the two had been courting for some time, Adele proposed marriage to Charles Cavendish at a speakeasy named 21, and he accepted The wedding was briefly postponed when Charles was hospitalized for appendicitis, his ill health exacerbated by heavy drinking, but on May 9, 1932, Adele Astaire married Lord Charles Cavendish in the family's private chapel at Chatsworth In 1933, Adele gave birth prematurely to a daughter, who did not survive. Two years later, she gave birth to stillborn twin sons. She struggled with periods of depression and an increasingly difficult home life. Charles grappled with severe alcoholism, spending periods of time in hospitals, nursing homes and German spas as he tried unsuccessfully to conquer his addiction. In 1936, American film producer David Selznick offered Adele a supporting role in his film Dark Victory, but she was unsatisfied with the screen tests and preoccupied with caring for her husband, ultimately declining the job offer. She turned down another film role from Selznick a year later.. In 1939, Adele, aged forty-two, suffered a miscarriage in her third and final pregnancy In March 1944, Charles died as a result of long-term alcohol poisoning, aged 38. Adele received compassionate leave to attend his funeral at St. Carthage's, where Charles was buried near his children In April 1947, Adele remarried, this time to her old American acquaintance from the war, Kingman Douglass Douglass, who had previously been married and divorced, now worked as an investment banker. He later briefly served as assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Adele gained three stepsons from her marriage to Douglass. In 1968, Douglass received injuries after being struck by a bus. Soon afterwards, he was injured again in a car accident. He died in 1971 due to a brain hemorrhage

Elizabeth Hughes Melcer became Elizabeth Prescott, Lady Prescott

Isabel Neilson became Isabel, Countess von Ostheim

Lillie Cranz Cullen became Lillie Apuzzo di Portanova, Baroness di Portanova

Mary Elsie May, previously Himes, became Mary Elsie Wellesley, Countess Cowley

Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"—first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life Heiress to one-third of the estate of the retail tycoon Frank Winfield Woolworth, Barbara Hutton was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She endured a childhood marked by the neglect of her father and the early loss of her mother at age four who died from suffocation due to mastoiditis. Rumors have persisted that she committed suicide.This set the stage for a life of difficulty forming relationships. Married and divorced seven times, she acquired grand foreign titles but was maliciously treated and often exploited by several of her husbands. Publicly she was much envied for her possessions, her beauty and her apparent life of leisure; privately she remained deeply insecure, often taking refuge in drink, drugs, and playboys.Born in New York City, Barbara Hutton was the only child of Edna Woolworth (1883–1917), who was a daughter of Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the successful Woolworth five-and-dime stores. Barbara's father was Franklyn Laws Hutton (1877–1940), a wealthy co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Company (owned by Franklyn's brother Edward Francis Hutton), a respected New York investment banking and stock brokerage firm. Barbara Hutton married:
1933: Alexis Mdivani, a self-styled Georgian prince, divorced 1935. He used her great wealth to his advantage. As a social climber, he and his siblings were part of the "Marrying Mdivanis" from Georgia who claimed to be "princes" after they fled Tbilisi in 1921 due to the Soviet invasion of Georgia.Alexis was already married to Louise Van Alen, a friend Barbara met at Bailey's Beach in Rhode Island and a member of the Astor family, when he met Barbara in Biarritz, France. Their meeting was engineered by Alexis' manipulative sister Isabelle Roussadana Mdivani [de] (aka Roussie) who was always propelling her family into wealthy marriages even if a divorce was required. Roussie and Alexis devised a plan that would enable Alexis to divorce Louise, seduce Barbara, and force her into marriage all at once when Alexis, Louise, Barbara, Roussie, and others were visiting San Sebastian, Spain. Roussie timed Louise and other witnesses to a visit a guest cottage while Alexis seduced Barbara. The group caught the couple, prompting Barbara to flee to Paris to avoid facing the scandal, but Roussie threatened Barbara with negative publicity if she did not marry her brother. Alexis and Barbara were married on June 22, 1933, in the Russian Orthodox Church in Paris, France. Barbara's father provided a $1 million dowry. After spending millions of Barbara's inheritance on a home, polo ponies, clothes and men's jewelry, Alexis and Barbara divorced in March 1935.
1935: Count Kurt Heinrich Eberhard Erdmann Georg von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, divorced 1938. With him she had her only child, a son named Lance. Reventlow dominated her through verbal and physical abuse, which escalated to a savage beating that left her hospitalized and put him in jail. He also persuaded her to give up her American citizenship, and to take his native Danish citizenship for tax purposes, which she did in December 1937 in a New York federal court. At this point she lapsed into drug abuse. Hutton then developed anorexia, which would plague her for the rest of her life and would leave her unable to have further children. Lance Reventlow, the son, became a race car driver and builder of his own well-respected sports car, the Scarab, in the golden age of American sports car racing. Hutton's divorce from Reventlow gave her custody of their son after a bitter court dispute. As her father had done, she left the raising of her child to a governess and private boarding schools.
1942: Cary Grant, divorced 1945. As World War II threatened in 1939, Hutton moved to California. She was active during the war, giving money to assist the Free French Forces and donating her yacht to the Royal Navy. Using her high-profile image to sell war bonds, she received positive publicity after being derided by the press as a result of her marriage scandals. In Hollywood, she met Cary Grant, one of the biggest movie stars of the day, and later married him on July 8, 1942. The press dubbed the married couple "Cash and Cary", though Grant did not need her money nor did he need to benefit from her name, and he appeared to genuinely care for Hutton. Nevertheless, this marriage also failed. Grant did not seek or receive any money from Hutton in their divorce settlement.
1947: Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, divorced 1951. Hutton left California and moved to Paris, France, before acquiring a palace in Tangier. Hutton then began dating Igor Troubetzkoy, an expatriate Russian prince of very limited means but world renown. In the spring of 1948 in Zürich, Switzerland, she married him. That year, he was the driver of the first Ferrari to ever compete in Grand Prix motor racing when he raced in the Monaco Grand Prix, and later won the Targa Florio. He ultimately filed for divorce. Hutton's subsequent attempted suicide made headlines around the world. Labeled by the press as the "Poor Little Rich Girl", her life made great copy and the media exploited her for consumption by a fascinated public.
1953: Porfirio Rubirosa, divorced 1954 Her next marriage, lasting 53 days (December 30, 1953 – February 20, 1954), was to Dominican diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, a notorious international playboy who meanwhile continued his affair with actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. She was granted Dominican citizenship in 1953
1955: Baron Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt von Cramm, divorced 1959. Her next husband was an old friend, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This marriage also ended in divorce. He later died in an automobile crash near Cairo, Egypt, in 1976.
1964: Pierre Raymond Doan, divorced 1966 In Tangier, Hutton met her seventh husband, Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh na Champassak. This marriage, too, was short-lived. Raymond Doan was an adopted member of the former royal family of the Kingdom of Champasak (roughly located in modern Laos).
Hutton lived with Frederick McEvoy, purchasing a chalet at a ski resort in Franconia, New Hampshire, after her marriage to actor Cary Grant. The couple never married and remained friends until McEvoy's death in 1951. She has also been linked to other man. The death of her only son Lance Reventlow in a plane crash in 1972 sent Hutton into a state of despair. By this time, her fortune had diminished, due to her extreme generosity, including donating Winfield House to the United States government as a residence for its UK ambassador. Alleged questionable deals by her longtime lawyer, Graham Mattison, also ate away at her fortune. Eventually she began liquidating assets in order to raise funds to live, yet continued to spend money on strangers willing to pay a little attention to her. She spent her final years in Los Angeles, living at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where she died from a heart attack in May 1979, aged 66. One biographer wrote that, at her death, $3,500 was all that remained of her fortune, but some close to her said that was not the case. She was interred in the Woolworth family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

Janet Elizabeth Snowden became Janet Caravita, Princess di Sirignano

Mabel Bayard Bradley became Countess Franz Ferdinand von Colloredo-Mannsfeld

Helen Seton became Helen de Goyon, duch*ess de Feltre

Laura Bache Kayser, previously Bayer, became Countess Antoine Sala

Nancy Yuille became Nancy Wyndham-Quin, Countess of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Carroll Elting, previously Donner became Carroll Tennyson, Baroness Tennyson

Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, previously Lehr, became Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford

Mary Walker Fearn, previously French, became Princess Serge Wolkonsky

Sallie Whitney Sanford became Sallie Ponsonby, Baroness Sysonby

Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald became Geraldine Lindsay-Hogg, Lady Lindsay-Hogg

Henrietta Guerard Pollitzer, previously Hartford, became Princess Guido Pignatelli

Wallis, duch*ess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former king Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication.An only child, Bessie Wallis (sometimes written "Bessiewallis") Warfield was born on June 19, 1896, in Square Cottage at Monterey Inn, a hotel directly across the road from the Monterey Country Club, in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania Wallis's father was Teackle Wallis Warfield (named after Severn Teackle Wallis) the fifth and youngest son of Henry Mactier Warfield, a prominent merchant, described as "one of the best known and personally one of the most popular citizens of Baltimore", who ran for mayor in 1875.Her mother was Alice Montague, a daughter of stockbroker William Latane Montague. Wallis was named in honor of her father (who was known as Wallis) and her mother's elder sister, Bessie (Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman), and was called Bessie Wallis until, at some time in her youth, the name Bessie was dropped.According to a wedding announcement published in The Baltimore Sun on November 20, 1895, Wallis's parents were married by C. Ernest Smith at Baltimore's Saint Michael and All Angels' Protestant Episcopal Church on November 19, 1895, which suggests she was conceived out of wedlock. Wallis said that her parents were married in June 1895. Her father died of tuberculosis on November 15, 1896. For her first few years, Wallis and her mother were dependent upon the charity of her father's wealthy bachelor brother Solomon Davies Warfield, postmaster of Baltimore and later president of the Continental Trust Company and the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Initially, they lived with him at the four-story row house, 34 East Preston Street, that he shared with his motherIn April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a US Navy aviator, in Pensacola, Florida, while visiting her cousin Corinne Mustin. It was at this time that Wallis witnessed two airplane crashes about two weeks apart, resulting in a lifelong fear of flying. The couple married on November 8, 1916, at Christ Episcopal Church in Baltimore, which had been Wallis's parish. Win, as her husband was known, was a heavy drinker. He drank even before flying and once crashed into the sea, but escaped almost unharmed.Later that year, Spencer left his wife for a period of four months, but in the spring of 1921 they were reunited in Washington, D.C., where Spencer had been posted. They soon separated again, and in 1922, when Spencer was posted to the Far East as commander of the USS Pampanga, Wallis remained behind, continuing an affair with an Argentine diplomat, Felipe de Espil. In January 1924, she visited Paris with her recently widowed cousin Corinne Mustin, before sailing to the Far East aboard a troop carrier, USS Chaumont. The Spencers were briefly reunited until she fell ill, after which she returned to Hong Kong. Wallis toured China, and while in Beijing stayed with Katherine and Herman Rogers, who were to remain her longterm friends. According to the wife of one of Win's fellow officers, Mrs. Milton E. Miles, in Beijing Wallis met Count Galeazzo Ciano, later Mussolini's son-in-law and foreign minister, had an affair with him, and became pregnant, leading to a botched abortion that left her infertile. The rumor was later widespread but never substantiated and Ciano's wife, Edda Mussolini, denied it.The existence of an official "China dossier" (detailing the supposed sexual and criminal exploits of Wallis in China) is denied by historians and biographers. Wallis spent over a year in China, during which time—according to the socialite Madame Wellington Koo—she managed to master only one Chinese phrase: "Boy, pass me the champagne". By September 1925, she and her husband were back in the United States, though living apart. Their divorce was finalized on December 10, 1927.By the time her marriage to Spencer was dissolved, Wallis had become involved with Ernest Aldrich Simpson, an Anglo-American shipping executive and former officer in the Coldstream Guards He divorced his first wife, Dorothea (by whom he had a daughter, Audrey), to marry Wallis on July 21, 1928, at the Register Office in Chelsea, London Wallis had telegraphed her acceptance of his proposal from Cannes, where she was staying with her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Through a friend, Consuelo Thaw, Wallis met Consuelo's sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness, at the time the mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales On January 10, 1931, Lady Furness introduced Wallis to Edward at Burrough Court, near Melton Mowbray. Edward was the eldest son of King George V and Queen Mary, and heir apparent to the British throne. Between 1931 and 1934, he met the Simpsons at various house parties, and Wallis was presented at court. Ernest was beginning to encounter financial difficulties, as the Simpsons were living beyond their means, and they had to fire a succession of staff. In January 1934, while Lady Furness was away in New York City, Wallis allegedly became Edward's mistress Edward denied this to his father, despite his staff seeing them in bed together as well as "evidence of a physical sexual act" Wallis soon ousted Furness, and Edward distanced himself from a former lover and confidante, the Anglo-American textile heiress Freda Dudley Ward By the end of 1934, Edward was irretrievably besotted with Wallis, finding her domineering manner and abrasive irreverence toward his position appealing; in the words of his official biographer, he became "slavishly dependent" on her According to Wallis, it was during a cruise on Lord Moyne's private yacht Rosaura in August 1934 that she fell in love with Edward At an evening party in Buckingham Palace, he introduced her to his mother; his father was outraged, primarily on account of her marital history, as divorced people were generally excluded from court. Edward showered Wallis with money and jewels, and in February 1935, and again later in the year, he holidayed with her in Europe. His courtiers became increasingly alarmed as the affair began to interfere with his official duties. In 1935, the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch told the Metropolitan Police Commissioner that Wallis was also having an affair with Guy Marcus Trundle, who was "said to be employed by the Ford Motor Company".Rumors of an affair were doubted, however, by Captain Val Bailey, who knew Trundle well and whose mother had an affair with Trundle for nearly two decades, and by historian Susan Williams On January 20, 1936, George V died at Sandringham and Edward ascended the throne as Edward VIII. The next day, he broke royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his accession from a window of St James's Palace, in the company of the still-married Wallis It was becoming apparent to court and government circles that the new king meant to marry her. The British and Dominion governments believed that a twice-divorced woman was politically, socially, and morally unsuitable as a prospective consort. Wallis had already filed for divorce from her second husband on the grounds that he had committed adultery with her childhood friend Mary Kirk and the decree nisi was granted on October 27, 1936 Wallis's relationship with Edward had become public knowledge in the United Kingdom by early December. She decided to flee the country as the scandal broke, and was driven to the south of France in a dramatic race to outrun the press Edward signed the Instrument of Abdication on December 10, 1936, in the presence of his three surviving brothers, the Dukes of York, Gloucester and Kent. Special laws passed by the Parliaments of the Dominions finalized Edward's abdication the following day, or in Ireland's case one day later. The Duke of York then became King George VI. On December 11, Edward said in a radio broadcast, "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love." Wallis and Edward married on June 3, 1937, at the Château de Candé, lent to them by French millionaire Charles Bedaux; The date would have been King George V's 72nd birthday; Queen Mary thought the wedding had been scheduled for then as a deliberate slight. No member of Edward's family attended.The marriage produced no children. In November, Ernest Simpson married Mary Kirk Edward was created Duke of Windsor by his brother King George VI prior to the marriage. However, letters patent, issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments, prevented Wallis, now duch*ess of Windsor, from sharing her husband's style of "Royal Highness". George VI's firm view that the duch*ess should not be given a royal title was shared by his mother, Queen Mary, and his wife, Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother). Wallis and Edward lived in France in the pre-war years. In 1937, they made a high-profile visit to Germany and met Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, his Berchtesgaden retreat. After the visit, Hitler said of Wallis, "she would have made a good queen" As the German troops advanced into France in 1940, the Windsors fled south from their Paris home, first to Biarritz then to Spain in June. The couple moved to Portugal in July. They stayed in Cascais, at Casa de Santa Maria, the home of Ricardo do Espírito Santo e Silva, a banker who was suspected of being a German agent In August 1940, the Duke and duch*ess traveled by commercial liner to the Bahamas, where Edward was installed as governor. Wallis performed her role as the governor's consort competently for five years; she worked actively for the Red Cross and in the improvement of infant welfare,as well as overseeing renovations of Government House. However, she hated Nassau, calling it "our St Helena" in a reference to Napoleon's final place of exile, and sarcastically commenting on the government surveillance In 1952, the Windsors were offered the use of a house by the Paris municipal authorities. The couple lived at 4 route du Champ d'Entraînement in the Bois de Boulogne, near Neuilly-sur-Seine, for most of the remainder of their lives, essentially living a life of easy retirement. Upon Edward's death from throat cancer in 1972, Wallis traveled to the United Kingdom to attend his funeral, staying at Buckingham Palace during her visit. She became increasingly frail and eventually succumbed to dementia, living the final years of her life as a recluse, supported by both her husband's estate and an allowance from the Queen. She suffered several falls and broke her hip twice.After Edward's death, Wallis's French lawyer, Suzanne Blum, assumed power of attorney In 1980, Wallis lost her ability to speak Wallis died on April 24, 1986, at her home in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, at the age of 89 from bronchial pneumonia

Virginia Cherrill, previously Grant, became Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey

Rozell Rowland became Rozell Empain, Baroness Empain

Barbara Dempsey Chase became Barbara Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1872 – April 1, 1965) was a Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporated cosmetics company, which made her one of the world's richest women Rubinstein was the eldest of eight daughters born to Polish Jews, "Augusta" Gitte (Gitel) Shaindel Rubinstein née Silberfeld and Naftoli Hertz "Horace" Rubinstein. Her father was a shopkeeper in Kraków, Lesser Poland, which was then occupied by Austria-Hungary following the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century. After refusing an arranged marriage, Rubinstein emigrated from Poland to Australia in 1896, with no money and little command of the English language In 1908, she married the Polish-born American journalist Edward William Titus in London. They had two sons, Roy Valentine Titus (London, December 12, 1909 – New York, June 18, 1989) and Horace Titus (London, April 23, 1912 – New York, May 18, 1958). They eventually moved to Paris where she opened a salon in 1912. At the outbreak of World War I, she and Titus moved to New York City, where she opened a cosmetics salon in 1915, the forerunner of a chain throughout the country. After her divorce, in 1938 Helena readily married Prince Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia (sometimes spelled Courielli-Tchkonia; born in Georgia, February 18, 1895, died in New York City, November 21, 1955), whose somewhat clouded matrilinear claim to Georgian nobility stemmed from him having been born a member of the untitled noble Tchkonia family of Guria, enticing the ambitious young man to appropriate the genuine title of his grandmother, born Princess Gourielli. Gourielli-Tchkonia was 23 years younger than Rubinstein. Eager for a regal title, Rubinstein pursued the handsome man avidly and named a male cosmetics line after her youthful prized catch. Some have claimed that the marriage was a marketing ploy, including Rubinstein's being able to pass herself off as Helena Princess Gourielli. Rubinstein died April 1, 1965, of natural causes and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Queens

Lela Alexander Emery, previously Mackintosh, became Lela de Talleyrand-Périgord, duch*ess de Talleyrand and duch*ess di Dino

Alice "Alicia" Orpha Spaulding became Countess Lorenzo Paolozzi

Jane Wheeler Irby became Princess Alexis Obolensky

Frances Dean, aka Frances Drake became The Hon. Mrs Cecil Howard

Adelaide Sedgwick, previously Munroe, became Princess Kirill Scherbatoff

Vera Seton Gordon, previously Guthrie, became Vera Swettenham, Lady Swettenham

Gene Eliza Tierney became Countess Oleg Cassini Loiewski

Lucy Cotton, previously Magraw became Princess Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine

Josephine Armstrong, previously Gwynne, became Josephine Molyneux, Countess of Sefton

Dorothy Livingston Ulrich became Princess Serge Troubetzkoy

Frances "Patty" Wickham Moore became Princess Serge Gagarin

Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May 1925 – 27 September 1991) was a Bermudian-born actress, the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin O'Neill's parents divorced when she was four years old, after which she was raised by her mother in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and rarely saw her father. In Hollywood, O'Neill was introduced to Chaplin, who considered her for a film role. The film was never made, but O'Neill and Chaplin began a romantic relationship and married in June 1943, a month after she turned 18. The 36-year age gap between them caused a scandal and severed O'Neill's relationship with her father, who was only six months older than Chaplin and who had already strongly disapproved of her wish to become an actress. Following the marriage, O'Neill gave up her career plans. She and Chaplin had eight children together and remained married until his death. Following Chaplin's death in 1977, she split her time between Switzerland and New York. She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 66 in Corsier-sur-Vevey in 1991. Her daughter Geraldine Chaplin named her daughter after her in 1986.

Florence Crane, previously Robinson, became Princess Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky

Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (née Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald, a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, and the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, heir apparent to the 10th Duke of Devonshire. Kennedy was born on February 20, 1920, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the fourth child and second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. She was nicknamed "Kick" because of her "irrepressible nature". In 1943, seeking a way to return to England, Kathleen signed up to work in a center for servicemen set up by the Red Cross. During her time in England, both before and particularly during the war, she grew increasingly more independent from her family and the Catholic Church to which they belonged. During this time, Kennedy began a romantic relationship with politician William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (usually known to his family and friends as Billy Hartington). He was the eldest son and heir apparent of the 10th Duke of Devonshire. The two had met and begun a friendship when she moved to England when her father was appointed American Ambassador. Despite objections from her mother, Kennedy and Lord Hartington reunited upon her return to England Rose especially rejected their relationship because she saw that their marriage would break the laws of the Catholic Church by allowing Kathleen's children to be raised in the Church of England (Anglican Communion) rather than the Catholic Church. Rose even tried to manipulate their relationship by keeping Kathleen away from Hartington and postponing a possible wedding. Regardless, Kathleen married Hartington on May 6, 1944, in a civil ceremony at the Caxton Hall Register Office Kathleen's eldest brother Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., an officer in the United States Navy, to whom she had grown close during the last year of his life, as he was serving in Britain, was the only member of the family to attend the ceremony. Her second eldest brother, John, was still hospitalized due to a back injury incurred on the motor torpedo patrol boat PT-109 in the South Pacific Ocean, while her younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy, was in naval training. On August 12, 1944, Joe Jr. was killed when his plane exploded over the English Channel during a top-secret bombing mission in Europe Kathleen, now Marchioness of Hartington, and Lord Hartington spent less than five weeks together before he went out to fight in France. Four months after their marriage, and less than a month after Joe Jr. was killed, Hartington was killed by a sniper during a battle with the Germans in Belgium. With his family's blessing, he was buried close to where he fell. His younger brother Lord Andrew Cavendish, who was married to Deborah Mitford, one of the Mitford sisters, thus became the heir apparent to the dukedom, as Billy Hartington had left no heir. Popular on the London social circuit and admired by many for her high spirits and wit, Lady Hartington eventually became romantically involved with the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, who was in the process of divorcing his wife. Once again, Rose Kennedy expressed her disapproval of her daughter's suitor and warned Kathleen that she would be disowned and cut off financially if she married Lord Fitzwilliam. In May 1948, Kathleen learned that her father would be traveling to Paris. In an effort to gain his consent for her upcoming plans to marry Fitzwilliam, she decided to fly to Paris to meet with her father.On May 13, 1948, Lady Hartington and Lord Fitzwilliam were flying from Paris to the French Riviera for a vacation aboard a de Havilland DH.104 Dove.At 3:30 in the afternoon, their plane took off, reaching an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,000 m). Approximately one hour into the flight, radio contact was lost with the plane when it entered the region near Vienne, which was also close to the center of a storm. The plane's four occupants endured twenty minutes of severe turbulence which bounced their small plane up and down as much as several thousand feet at a time.When they finally cleared the clouds, they instantly discovered the plane was in a dive and moments away from impact, and they attempted to pull up. The stress of the turbulence, coupled with the sudden change of direction, tore loose one of the wings, followed by both engines, and finally the tail. The plane's fuselage then spun into the ground seconds later, coming to rest nose-down in a ravine, after striking terrain at Plateau du Coiron, near Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France. Lady Hartington was instantly killed, along with Fitzwilliam, the pilot Peter Townshend and the navigator Arthur Freeman.She was buried on the Cavendish family burial grounds at St Peter's Churchyard, Edensor outside of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England. Her father was the only family member to attend the funeral, arranged by the Devonshires. Rose Kennedy had refused to attend her daughter's funeral, instead entering a hospital for medical reasons

Elizabeth "Betty" Bates Volck daughter of the former Lillian Beaverstock and Adelbert George Volck (1886–1974). She met Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein Their engagement was announced in 1926 when he was twenty-six and she was seventeen. Shortly after the announcement, Prince Johannes denied they were ever engaged.They did not marry and Betty eventually committed suicide in November 1931

Aleene McFarland (1902–1983) daughter of Charles McFarland, a (Texan)cattle baron, and Eloise (née McAfee) McFarland. She married Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein on 29 July 1931 A year after their marriage, Prince Johannes' kinsman, Franz I, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, bestowed the titles of Count and Countess of Schellenberg on the children who may be born of the marriage. However, they divorced without issue in 1943

Jean Ann French (1917–2005), an American from Iowa, married Prince Johannes of Liechtenstein (as his 2nd wife) on 27 August 1945 In 1948, he became an American citizen, at which time he renounced his title as a Prince of Liechtenstein

Aimee Gaillard Russell became Aimee Corsini dei Principi Corsini, Marquise di Lajatico

Carolyn Baily Brown became Carolyn de Crussol, duch*ess d'Uzès

Susan Doniphan Lindsay became Susan Russell, Viscountess Amberley

Lida Lacey Bloodgood became Princess Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł

Aline Griffith became Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter de Figueroa Perez de Guzmán el Bueno, Countess de Quintanilla and Countess de Romanones

Consuelo Pauline O'Brien O'Connor became Countess Rodolfo Crespi

Zina Rachevsky became Countess Bernard d'Harcourt

Katharine Bradley Tod, previously Martin, became The Hon. Mrs Bartholomew Pleydell-Bouverie

Caroline Middleton DeCamp became Caroline Benn, Viscountess Stansgate

Claire Elizabeth McGinnis became Princess Ivan Obolensky

Dorothy Haydel, previously Oelrichs, became Princess Ferdinand von Liechtenstein

Caroline Triplett Taliaferro Scott, became Countess Édouard Decazes de Glücksbierg

Zara Mildred Carlson became Mildred Capell, Countess of Essex

Patricia Anne zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (née Patricia Wilder) (September 8, 1913 – August 11, 1995) was an American film actress of the late 1930s. Wilder was born on September 8, 1913, in Macon, Georgia. She was a daughter of Oscar Owen Wilder and Laura Bryant (née Watson) Wilder She married reporter Robin (Curly) Harris in 1935. Her second husband was Albert Cernadas, an Argentine millionaire, whom she wed in 1941. On 21 May 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut, she married her third husband, Prince Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst He was a son of Austrian diplomat Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and the former Catharine Britton of Washington D.C.They remained married until his death in 1984

Anne "Frances" "Nancy" Darwin Goodrich became Princess Edmond Poniatowski

Virginia Fortune Ryan became Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie

Katherine Taylor "Kappy" Pearce, previously Gennet, became Princess Alexis Obolensky

Edith Finch became Edith Russell, Countess Russell

Rosemary Turner, previously McMahon, became Baroness Robert Silvercruys

Pauline Fairfax Potter, previously Leser became Baroness Philippe de Rothschild

Mona von Bismarck (née Strader; February 5, 1897 – July 10, 1983), also known as Mona Bismarck, was an American socialite, fashion icon, and philanthropist. Her five husbands included Harrison Williams, among the richest men in America, and Count Albrecht Eduard "Eddie" von Bismarck-Schönhausen, a grandson of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. She was the first American to be named "The Best Dressed Woman in the World" by a panel of top couturiers, including Coco Chanel, and she was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She was born as Mona Strader in Louisville, Kentucky in 1897 to Robert Sims Strader and his wife, Bird O'Shockeny. Her parents divorced in 1902, and she and her brother were raised in Liberty Heights, Kentucky by their paternal grandmother. In 1917, she married Henry J. Schlesinger, a man 18 years her senior who owned Fairland Farm in Lexington, where her father was a professional trainer, and moved to Milwaukee, where he had an iron and co*ke business. During the marriage, she bore a son, Robert Henry, whom she left in the custody of Schlesinger in exchange for $500,000 when they divorced in 1920 In 1921, she married banker James Irving Bush, 14 years her senior, said to be the "handsomest man in America". They divorced in Paris in 1925.In 1926, she opened a New York dress shop with her friend Laura Merriam Curtis, the daughter of William Rush “Spooky” Merriam, a former governor of Minnesota. At the time, Laura had been previously engaged to Harrison Williams, reputed to be the richest man in America, with an estimated fortune of $600 million ($10,300,000,000 in today dollars; $37,500,000,000 in gold-dollars (at $1275/tr.oz)), made in financing public utilities. On July 2, 1926, she married Williams, a widower 24 years her seniorWilliams died in 1953, and in January 1955, she married her "secretary" Albrecht Edzard Heinrich Karl, Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1903–1970), an "interior decorator" of an aristocratic sort and the son of Herbert von Bismarck and grandson of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, civilly in New Jersey, and in February 1956, religiously in Rome. In 1970, she was widowed again, and in 1971, she married Bismarck's physician "Count" Umberto de Martini, a nobleman (after she acquired a title for him from King Umberto II of Italy), who was 14 years younger than her. Only after his death in a sports car accident in 1979 (later referenced by socialites as "Martini on the rocks") did she realize that Martini, like Bismarck, had married her for her money (exactly the same way she had married Schlesinger, Bush, and Williams, so many years before). Martini turned out to be already married and had been secretly bilking her of funds for his children. Von Bismarck died in 1983 at the age of 86.

Martha Sharp "Sunny" von Bülow (née Crawford; September 1, 1932 − December 6, 2008) was an American heiress and socialite. Her second husband, Claus von Bülow (1926−2019), was convicted in 1982 of attempting to murder her by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. A second trial found him not guilty, after experts opined that there was no insulin injection and that her symptoms were attributable to overuse of prescription drugs. The story was dramatized in the book and film Reversal of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow lived almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state, from December 1980 until her death in a New York City nursing home on December 6, 2008.She was the only child of utilities magnate George Crawford (a former chairman of Columbia Gas & Electric Company) and his wife, Annie-Laurie Warmack. She was born on her father's personal railway carriage in Manassas, Virginia, en route from Hot Springs, Virginia, to New York for which she was known as "Choo-Choo" as a child before being nicknamed "Sunny" because of her nature On July 20, 1957, Sunny married Alfred Eduard Friedrich Vincenz Martin Maria Auersperg (1936−1992) the son of Alois Auersperg and Henriette Larisch von Moennich. He came from a very distinguished Austrian princely family that once ruled over the Principality of Auersperg, but due to the collapse of the Austrian Empire, his family became relatively impoverished. He was her tennis instructor in a Swiss resort They had 2 children. The Auerspergs were divorced in 1965. At that time, Sunny's net worth was over $75 million. Alfred Auersperg died in 1992 after lingering in an irreversible coma for nine years following a 1983 car accident in Austria On June 6, 1966, Sunny married Claus von Bülow, a former aide to oilman J. P. Getty, at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. His maternal grandfather, whose surname he took, was Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow, Justice Minister of Denmark in the government of Klaus Berntsen (1910–1913) and also came from a noble background They had a daughter By 1979, significant stresses and tensions had developed in their marriage, and both Sunny and Claus spoke openly about the possibility of a divorce. On December 26, 1979, after the family had come together for Christmas at their Newport, Rhode Island mansion, she was found unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital where she slipped into a coma, but was revived. After days of testing, doctors determined the coma was the result of low blood sugar and diagnosed her as hypoglycemic, warning her against overindulging on sweets or going too long without eating. While no foul play was suspected at the time, Claus von Bülow was later accused of causing this incident by injecting her with insulin. In April 1980, she was again hospitalized after appearing incoherent and disoriented; their doctors reconfirmed she suffered from reactive hypoglycemia. She was advised to maintain control of the hypoglycemia by following a strict diet, limiting her sugar intake, and avoiding alcohol On the evening of December 21, 1980, while celebrating Christmas with her family at their mansion, Clarendon Court, in Newport, Rhode Island, she again displayed confusion and lack of coordination. She was put to bed by her family, but in the morning she was discovered unconscious on the bathroom floor. She was taken to the hospital where it became clear that this time she had suffered severe enough brain injury to produce a persistent vegetative state. Although clinical features resembled a drug overdose, some of the laboratory evidence suggested hypoglycemia. The Court of Appeal ordered disclosure of the notes taken by the Auersperg children's attorney. These showed that Claus von Bülow did not want to terminate life support, as had been alleged.Because of the increased marital tensions between Claus and Sunny von Bülow in the fall of 1980, her children were suspicious that her brain injury was the result of foul play by him. Her two eldest children persuaded Richard H. Kuh, the former New York County District Attorney, to investigate the possibility Claus von Bülow had attempted the murder of their mother. After the gathering of evidence, Rhode Island prosecutors presented the case to a grand jury who returned an indictment, and in July 1981, he was charged with two counts of attempted murder.Sunny remained in a persistent vegetative state until her death from cardiopulmonary arrest on December 6, 2008, at Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home in New York City

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. Prior to her marriage, she starred in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s. She received an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was ranked 13th on the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars list Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an affluent and influential family. Her father, John B. Kelly Sr., was born to Irish immigrants and won three Olympic gold medals for sculling. He owned a successful brickwork contracting company that was well known on the East Coast. As Democratic nominee in the 1935 election for Mayor of Philadelphia, he lost by the closest margin in the city's history.Kelly's mother, Margaret Majer, was of German ancestry.Margaret had taught physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and had been the first woman to coach women's athletics at Penn. She also modeled for a time in her youth.After marrying John Kelly in 1924, Margaret f In 1954, Kelly dated and was engaged to Oleg Cassini after his divorce from Gene Tierney Kelly headed the U.S. delegation at the Cannes Film Festival in April 1955. While there, she was invited to participate in a photo session with Prince Rainier III, the sovereign of the Principality of Monaco, at the Prince's Palace of Monaco. After a series of delays and complications, she met him at the palace on May 6, 1955. After a year-long courtship described as containing "a good deal of rational appraisal on both sides," they married on April 19, 1956. The Napoleonic Code of Monaco and the laws of the Catholic Church necessitated two ceremonies, civil and religious. The 16-minute civil ceremony took place in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956, and a reception later in the day was attended by 3,000 Monégasque citizens. The 142 official titles that she acquired in the union (counterparts of her husband's) were formally recited. The church ceremony took place the following day at Monaco's Saint Nicholas Cathedral, presided over by Bishop Gilles Barthe Princess Grace gave birth to the couple's first child, Princess Caroline, on January 23, 1957. Their next child and the heir to the throne, Prince Albert, was born on March 14, 1958. Their youngest, Princess Stéphanie, was born on February 1, 1965.On September 13, 1982, Grace suffered a mild cerebral hemorrhage while driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel. As a result, she lost control of her 1972 Rover P6 3500 and drove off the steep, winding road and down the 120-foot (37 m) mountainside. Her daughter Stéphanie, who was in the passenger seat, unsuccessfully tried to regain control of the car.The Princess was taken to the Monaco Hospital (later named the Princess Grace Hospital Centre) with injuries to the brain and thorax and a fractured femur. Initially that afternoon, she was officially diagnosed with the cerebral hemorrhage and was said to be able to make a full recovery before a second, more severe, hemorrhage struck while at the hospital. With no reasonable chance of recovery, she died the following night at 10:55 p.m. after Rainier decided to turn off her life support Stéphanie suffered a light concussion and a hairline fracture of a cervical vertebra, and was unable to attend her mother's funeral Rainier, who did not remarry, was buried alongside her after his death in 2005

Lavinia Joyce became The Hon. Mrs Anthony George Lowther

Catherine Murray di Montezemolo, née Catherine Bradley Murray (September 18, 1925 – April 22, 2009) was a fashion editor with a prominent position in Southampton society.Di Montezemolo was born to a wealthy family — her grandfather was the prolific inventor and engineer, Thomas E. Murray, who together with Thomas Edison helped to found the NY-based utility, Con Edison, in the early twentieth century. In 1958, she married an Italian nobleman, Alessandro di Montezemolo (Nobile of the Marchesi di Montezemolo), who was a senior executive at Marsh & McLennan.

Caroline Lee Bouvier, later Canfield, Radziwiłł and Ross (March 3, 1933 – February 15, 2019), was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital, Manhattan, New York City, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee Considered by "New York's society arbiters and editors" as the city's leading debutante, Radziwill had her "coming out" party in 1950. A full-page photograph of her in her gown was featured in the "debutante" section of Life magazine (page 71) in the December 25, 1950 issue. Radziwill was married three times. Her first marriage, in April 1953, was to Michael Temple Canfield, a publishing executive. They divorced in 1958, and the marriage was declared annulled by the Sacred Rota in November 1962 According to the memoirs of Loelia, duch*ess of Westminster, Edward VIII believed that Canfield was actually the biological son of his brother Prince George, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George V and uncle of Elizabeth II) and Kiki Preston. Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish aristocrat Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, who divorced his second wife, the former Grace Maria Kolin (Grace later married William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley as his third wife. Dudley's second wife was Viscountess (Frances) Laura Long née Charteris who later married Michael Temple Canfield, Lee's first husband) and received a Roman Catholic annulment of his first marriage to re-marry. (His second marriage had never been acknowledged by the Roman Catholic Church, so no annulment was necessary.) Upon her marriage, she began to use the title of Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiłł and was sometimes referred to as Princess Radziwill in the American press. However, the Second Polish Republic had abolished the legal recognition of noble titles in the March Constitution of 1921 (article 96), with the effect that the Radziwills were pretenders to the title. They had two children, Anthony (1959–1999) and Anna Christina (b. 1960). Their marriage ended in divorce in 1974 In 1976, The New York Times reported Peter Francis Tufo, a lawyer and real estate developer, was a "frequent escort" of Radziwill. On September 23, 1988, Radziwill married for a third time, becoming the second wife of American movie director and choreographer Herbert Ross Their divorce was finalized during 2001; he died later that year, and she returned to using Radziwill, the transliteration of her children's name, Radziwiłł. Radziwill died on February 15, 2019, aged 85, in her apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

Maude Evelyn "Barnsie" Barnes became Evelyn Sassoon, Lady Sassoon

Margaret Wright "Peggy" de Crussol, duch*ess d'Uzès (née Bedford, formerly Bancroft and d'Arenberg) (October 18, 1932 – October 16, 1977) was an American‐born oil heiress who married three times, first to an American textile and banking heir, second to a Duke of Arenberg, and third to the premier Duke of France.Margaret, who was known as Peggy to her friends, was born in New York City on October 18, 1932. She was the only child of Frederick Henry Bedford Jr. and Margaret Wright (née Stewart) Bedford On April 15, 1951, she was married to Thomas Moore Bancroft Jr. (1930–2019), at St. James' Episcopal Church in Manhattan with a reception in the ballroom of the Colony Club. Thomas, a graduate of the Middlesex School and Princeton University, was the son of Edith W. Bancroft and Thomas M. Bancroft Sr. Before their divorce in Alabama in May 1960 they had 1 daughter After their divorce, Bancroft remarried two more times, secondly to Melissa Weston, and thirdly to Barbara (née Symmers) Wiedemann (former wife of George Stanhope Wiedemann III) in 1977 On December 29, 1960, she was married to Prince Charles Auguste Armand d'Arenberg (1905–1967) in a quiet ceremony in Massachusetts. Charles, a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire who was 27 years her senior, was the son of Prince Charles Louis Pierre d'Arenberg and Antoinette Hélène Emma Louise de Gramont de Lesparre, and grandson (and heir) of Prince Auguste Louis Albéric d'Arenberg ,2nd (French) Duke of Arenberg. After the marriage, she was known as Her Serene Highness, Princess d'Arenberg, duch*ess of Arenberg and they lived at the d'Arenberg residence in Paris and Peggy again became a popular hostess they had 1 son In Fall 1966, after five years of marriage, Peggy filed for divorce from Prince Charles, who counter-sued charging Peggy with adultery and claiming she had four lovers. During the divorce, she continued to live in the same residence as him Her husband died, unexpectedly, in June 1967, at the age of 62. Peggy proclaimed the couple had reconciled and the divorce had been called off shortly before he died. The Prince's family gave her a generous allowance and guaranteed her son's inheritance rights under the condition she immediately leave the d’Arenberg residence, which she did On July 12, 1968, she was married to Emmanuel Jacques de Crussol, Duke d'Uzès (1927–1999) at the Villa Taylor in Morocco by the Pasha of Marrakech, and witnessed by Man Singh II (the Maharaja of Jaipur) and the Countess de Breteuil He was heir to the oldest and premier dukedom in France which had been created by King Charles IX in 1565. Technically, it was a "higher" title (because most ancient) than her previous marriage but this is real only in France because her second husband was a German Duke too, a Serene Highness and a member of a (former) Sovereign House, a Sovereign Duchy created in 1644 (and 3rd Duke of Arenberg in French Peerage). Emmanuel, a grandson of the 14th Duke, had been briefly married to another American, Carolyn Baily Brown of North Carolina (a sister of producer David Brown) from 1946 to 1947, and was the son of Duke de Crussol and the former Evelyn Anne Gordon of London The duch*ess d'Uzès was killed in an early morning automobile accident a few days shy of her 45th birthday. She was en route back to her home in Paris after attending a ball at the home of real estate developer Robert de Balkany near Rambouillet, southwest of Paris. Of the four passengers, she was the only death; the two men in the car, one of whom was driving, escaped with slight injuries, while Geneviève Françoise Poncet (mother of the debutante for whom the ball was given) suffered several broken ribs. Poncet was the former wife of Robert de Balkany, who was then married to Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, daughter of Umberto II, the last King of Italy. Her husband, The Duke d'Uzes, was in Morocco, where he worked as an chemical engineer, at the time of the accident. Her funeral service was held at St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City on October 24, 1977, followed by entombment in the Bedford family mausoleum.

Kathleen Norris, previously Roberts, became Princess Andrew Romanov

Edith Bradford Myles became Countess Guy-Philippe Lannes de Montebello

Janet Schonwald became Princess Nikita Romanov

Edith Carpenter Macy became Countess Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim

Mary Raye Gross, aka Nancy "Slim" Keith, previously Hayward, became Nancy Keith, Lady Keith

Nancy Ruth Cobbs, previously Stephenson, became Nancy Lowther, Countess of Lonsdale

Gillian Spreckels Fuller became Lady Charles Spencer-Churchill

Mary Murchison, previously Ohrstrom became Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere

Josalee Douglas became Countess Jean-François de Chambrun

Amanda Lewis, aka Amanda Leigh, became Amanda Borghese, Princess di Sant'Angelo e di San Polo and duch*ess di Bomarzo

Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (né Goldbach; August 28, 1946) is an American actress and former model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.Bach's first marriage was to Italian businessman Augusto, Count Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna. The couple had two children together before divorcing in 1975. Bach married British musician Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, at Marylebone Town Hall on April 27, 1981. The two met in 1980, on the set of the film Caveman (1981)

Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American actress, model and painter. She starred in the films The Master Gunfighter (1975); Embryo (1976); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977); Condorman (1981); I, the Jury (1982) and Lone Wolf McQuade (1983). She is perhaps best remembered for her performance as SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983), for which Carrera was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Carrera is also known for playing Clay Basket in the big-budget miniseries Centennial (1978–79), and as Angelica Nero on the ninth season of CBS prime time soap opera Dallas (1985–86).Carrera has been married and divorced three times, her spouses being:Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman. They married in New York City in 1966 (religiously in 1969) and divorced in 1972 (religiously in 1983).Uva Harden (born 1941), a German fashion model and actor.Married in 1972, they divorced in July 1976.Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate, a few years her junior, who is the younger and only surviving son of Manuel Basil Mavroleon (aka "Bluey") by his second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro. They married on March 16, 1983, and later divorced She had no issue

Marina Beatrice Sulzberger, became Marina Berry, Viscountess Camrose

Joan de Noailles, Dowager duch*ess of Mouchy (née Joan Douglas Dillon, later Princess Charles of Luxembourg; born 31 January 1935) is an American-born French duch*ess, the first commoner to marry into the reigning dynasty of Luxembourg, and is the former president of French Bordeaux wine company Domaine Clarence Dillon.Joan Dillon is the daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and his wife, Phyllis Chess Ellsworth Dillon married firstly in Paris, France, on 1 August 1953 James Brady Moseley, great-grandson of industrialist Anthony N. Brady, grandnephew of philanthropist Nicholas Frederic Brady and first cousin of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady. She converted to Catholicism accordingly. The couple divorced in Washoe County, Nevada, US, on 12 December 1955; the marriage was annulled in Rome, Italy, on 22 June 1963. They had a daughterDillon married secondly on 1 March 1967 Prince Charles, brother of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, at the Catholic Church of St. Edward the Confessor in Sutton Park, Surrey, UK. The marriage was the first authorized of a Luxembourgeois prince to a commoner – authorized by Grand Ducal decree issued 16 February 1967. She was styled "Her Royal Highness Princess Joan of Luxembourg". Prince Charles died in Imbarcati, Province of Pistoia, Italy, on 26 July 1977. They had two children. Dillon married thirdly in Islesboro, Maine, on 3 August 1978 Philippe, 7th Duke de Mouchy (1922–2011). The marriage was without issue

Eliza Winn Lloyd became Eliza Moore, Viscountess Moore

Elizabeth Fullerton, previously Crocker, became Elizabeth Montagu, duch*ess of Manchester

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer and musician. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Linda McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman in Manhattan, New York, on September 24, 1941. Her mother, Louise Sara Eastman (née Lindner), was from a German-Jewish family Her father, Lee Eastman, was born Leopold Vail Epstein and was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Eastman's first marriage was to Joseph Melville See Jr. (April 19, 1938 – March 19, 2000),whom she met in college.She married See on June 18, 1962, and their daughter Heather Louise was born on December 31, 1962. The couple had dissimilar lifestyles, became increasingly unhappy, and divorced in June 1965. On May 15, 1967, while on a photo assignment in London, Eastman met Paul McCartney at the Bag O'Nails club, where Georgie Fame was performing. They met again four days later at the launch party for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Brian Epstein's house. When her assignment was completed, she flew back to New York City They were married in a small civil ceremony at Marylebone Town Hall on March 12, 1969 British fans reacted negatively, partly because his marriage ended McCartney's status as the last unattached Beatle. John Lennon married Yoko Ono a week later, and both women were perceived by fans as reasons for the group's breakup During their 29-year marriage, the McCartneys had four children: she brought her daughter Heather (whom Paul later formally adopted) from her first marriage, and together the couple had Mary (b. 1969), Stella (b. 1971), and James (b. 1977). She became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and her condition worsened when the cancer metastasized to her liver. Paul was aware of the prognosis and later said, "The doctors had told me privately that we'd caught it too late, that she'll have about 18 months. And that was what she had." She died from the disease at the age of 56 on April 17, 1998, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her family was with her when she died

Pamela Colin became Pamela Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech

Ellen Naomi Cohen, aka Cass Elliot, previously Hendricks, became Baroness Donald von Wiedenmann

Anne Guestier Manice became Countess Edmond de La Haye Jousselin

Dorothy Dear, previously Hutton became Dorothy Weir, Viscountess Weir

Victoria Lou Schott became Victoria de Rothschild, Lady de Rothschild

Catherine "Kate" de Castelbajac (born Katherine Lee Chambers in Santa Barbara, California) is a former model and fashion journalist who now works as an image consultant and educator. She is the founder of CdeC Academy of Santa Barbara and is affiliated with the Association of Image Consultants International. Kate Chambers was born in Santa Barbara, California, to William Joseph Chambers and Lillian Chambers In October 1976, she met fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. The two were married in 1979. They had two sons together. They divorced in 1995

Frances Akin Spence became Countess Thierry de Ganay

Jenna de Rosnay (born Jenna Severson, 7 March 1963) is an American windsurfer, fashion designer, and model. Born in California and raised in Hawaii and Tahiti, de Rosnay is the daughter of John Severson, photographer, film director, and founder of Surfer magazine, and his wife, the former Louise Stier Jenna de Rosnay has been married twice: 1. (Baron) Arnaud Louis Fromet de Rosnay (1946–1984), a French playboy, photographer, and long-distance windsurfer who was the youngest son of French-Mauritian painter Gaëtan de Rosnay and his wife, the former Natacha Koltchine. Arnaud de Rosnay had previously been married to Isabel Goldsmith, daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and granddaughter of the Bolivian tin tycoon Antenor Patiño and his wife Doña Maria Cristina de Borbon y Bosch Labrus, duch*ess of Durcal. Jenna Severson and Arnaud de Rosnay married in 1981, and in 1984, he disappeared at sea while attempting to windsurf from China to Taiwan. The couple had one daughter, Alizé de Rosnay (born 1984) 2. Emmanuel de Buretel, a recording executive who is the founder of Because Music and the former chairman and CEO of EMI Recorded Music Continental Europe. They have three daughters.

Mary Morley Eccles, Viscountess Eccles (née Crapo; 8 July 1912 – 26 August 2003) was a book collector and author. She was renowned for establishing one of the largest private collections of 18th century literature with her first husband, Donald Hyde (1909-1966). This includes works from Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. She also created an Oscar Wilde Collection which was bequeathed to the British Library in 2003. Eccles was born Mary Morley Crapo in Detroit, Michigan, United States in 1912, to American railway executive Stanford T. Crapo (grandson of Governor Henry H. Crapo) and wife Emma Caroline Morley. Mary Hyde married David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles in 1984, becoming The Right Honourable The Viscountess Eccles.