Americans Who Married Royals and Aristocrats


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Princess Laetitia Murat

Can anyone here provide any info on the life of this French royal lady who initially married an American from a very prominent Boston family (Charles Codman Jr.) and after being widowed married a de Lubersac of France?
 
If Jackie O's sister, Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill, is included, so must be her daughter-in-law Carole Ann DiFalco. Carole married Prince Anthony Radziwill, son of Prince Stanislas Radziwill and Lee Bouvier, in 1994. (As a member of the Radziwills, one of Central Europe's noble families, Anthony Radziwill was customarily accorded the title of Prince and styled His Serene Highness, although he never used it. He descended from King Frederick William I of Prussia, King George I of Great Britain, and King John III Sobieski of Poland). She was still married to him at the time of his death in 1999. He died less than a month after his 1st cousin JFK Jr. Carole has remained unmarried since Anthony ' s passing.
 
ssybl said:
Can anyone here provide any info on the life of this French royal lady who initially married an American from a very prominent Boston family (Charles Codman Jr.) and after being widowed married a de Lubersac of France?
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^ Just in case you still are with the forum, ssybl.

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Charles Wayne Knecht, 1st cousin once removed of Princess Grace of Monaco, married Baroness Christine - Alix de Massy (the youngest of Princess Antoinette of Monaco's 3 chidren) on 14 FEB 1972. They divorced in 1976. She died in 1988 at the age of 37 from leukemia.
 
CyrilVladisla said:
The article referred to Audrey as Anna Audrey Emery. Where does the Anna come from? Is this her actual given first name at birth? Or is this the Russian first name she received upon marrying Grand Duke Dmitri?
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Her whole name (and the lack of citations) is odd. I mean, Wikipedia claims her full name was <b>Anna Audrey Emery Reykariw</b>, yet provides no citation at all, does not explain the Anna, and does not explain where Reykariw comes from (her father and brothers all having the last name Emery, and neither of her husbands having the last name Reykariw).

"Anna" being her Russian name doesn't make sense either. The way the Russian renames typically work is that the wife was given a Russian first name (or had her first name Russi-fied), and a patronymic surname. Anna certainly would have been a Russian first name, but her patronymic surname would have been Ivanovna, not Reykariw.
 
Ish said:
Her whole name (and the lack of citations) is odd. I mean, Wikipedia claims her full name was <b>Anna Audrey Emery Reykariw</b>, yet provides no citation at all, does not explain the Anna, and does not explain where Reykariw comes from (her father and brothers all having the last name Emery, and neither of her husbands having the last name Reykariw).

"Anna" being her Russian name doesn't make sense either. The way the Russian renames typically work is that the wife was given a Russian first name (or had her first name Russi-fied), and a patronymic surname. Anna certainly would have been a Russian first name, but her patronymic surname would have been Ivanovna, not Reykariw.
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Ish, Thank you for the information. I understand that the Ivanovna comes from John since Ivan is the Russian equivalent of John.
 
"De Amerikaanse prinses" about

Allene,
Countess Pavel Pavlovitch de Kotzebue
née Tew
formerly Mrs Theodore R. Hostetter,
formerly Mrs Morton Colton Nichols,
formerly Mrs Anson Wood Burchard,
formerly Princess Heinrich XXXIII Reuss zu Köstritz
(1872-1955).

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Allene was -by marriage- related to the Orange-Nassaus and to the Lippes: her fourth husband Prince Heinrich XXIII Reuss zu Köstritz was a grandson to Princess Sophie of the Netherlands. His two brothers-in-law were married to a Princess of Lippe (the House of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands).

On itself Allene had relation to Prince Bernhard, she knew him from her Reuß zu Köstritz period. As Countess Pavel Pavlovitch de Kotzebue (her fifth spouse) she resided in a grand house in Paris and as she had motherly feelings for Prince Bernhard, she made him her protégé. For Prince Bernhard "Aunt Allene" was more than welcome. Thanks to him he, a simple stagiaire at IG Farben in Paris, could afford the lifestyle of a grand seigneur....

The American Princess had two fabulous mansions, one in Suisnes (near Paris, dept. Seine-et-Marne) and one in Cap d'Ail (at the Rivièra, dept. Alpes-Maritimes). The last one has salons kept intact from the death of Allene. Nothing has been changed in the interior and as all blinds were closed and no one entered her rooms for decades, the fabulous interiors are original and still as new. This became visible when a Dutch TV-show host (Ivo Niehe) visited Cap d'Ail with the author Annejet van der Zijl.

Villa of Countess Paul de Kotzebue née Allene Tew in Cap d'Ail 1

Villa of Countess Paul de Kotzebue née Allene Tew in Cap d'Ail 2

Villa of Countess Paul de Kotzebue née Allene Tew in Cap d Ail 3

Residence of Allene in Château de Suisnes 1

Residence of Allene in Château de Suisnes 2

Residence of Allene in Château de Suisnes 3

Residence of Allene in Château de Suisnes 4

Countess Paul de Kotzebue née Allene Tew as godmother of Princess Beatrix (at the right)

The standing persons are:
Countess Paul de Kotzebue née Allene Tew
HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
HM King Leopold III of the Belgians
HSH Princess Armgard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld née Freiin von Sierstorpff-Cramm
HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
HM The Queen of the Netherlands
HRH The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
HRH The Fürstin zu Erbach-Schönberg née Princess Elizabeth von Waldeck und Pyrmont

The seated persons are:
HRH Princess Juliana of the Netherlands
HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
 
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Is Estelle Manvile the only american who marries a swedish Prince ?
 
maria-olivia said:
Is Estelle Manvile the only american who marries a swedish Prince ?
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As far as I know, yes.

Chris O'Neill, who has a dual citizenship (US and UK) married princess Madeleine in 2013. He and Estelle Manville are the only americans I know of that has married into swedish royalty.
 
CyrilVladisla said:
Ish, Thank you for the information. I understand that the Ivanovna comes from John since Ivan is the Russian equivalent of John.
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Okay, so I found her page on the Peerage, which I think is a bit more trustworthy than Wikipedia.

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There's no mention of the Reykariw surname, which leads me to think that the name appears out of wiki-spam. The name Anna does pop up, and according to the Peerage it was her actual first name, she just usually went by her middle name Audrey. Her style (according to the Peerage) while she was married to Grand Duke Dimitri was HSH Princess Audrey Romanovskya-Ilynskya.

Under old style of Russian Royals she probably would have been HSH Princess Anna Ivanovna Romnovskya-Ilynskya, but the marriage was morganatic and occurred after the fall of the Romanovs and didn't happen in France, there isn't really reason for that to have happened.
 
maria-olivia said:
Is Estelle Manvile the only american who marries a swedish Prince ?
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xenobia said:
As far as I know, yes.



Chris O'Neill, who has a dual citizenship (US and UK) married princess Madeleine in 2013. He and Estelle Manville are the only americans I know of that has married into swedish royalty.
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If we're being picky Estelle Manville didn't marry royalty since Folke, although son of a prince, was a Count of Wisborg and not a member of the Royal family


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JR76 said:
If we're being picky Estelle Manville didn't marry royalty since Folke, although son of a prince, was a Count of Wisborg and not a member of the Royal family
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We should always be picky, and you're right, although I think that most people would consider him part of the royal family at the time of the marriage.
 
Prince Viggo of Denmark married Eleanor Green in 1923. Although the comital title was made hereditary for all his legitimate descendants in the male line, the princely title was restricted to himself and Eleanor (Prince and Princess Viggo).
 
Cornelia Bradley-Martin, one of the dollar princesses married the Earl of Craven.

Jean Templeton Cunningham Reid, daughter of US ambassador to the UK, Whitelaw Reid and Elisabeth Mills Reid married Sir John Hubert Ward, a member of the Earl Dudley family. She was a cousin to Beatrice Livingston Mills, an American heiress who married the Earl of Granard.

Ellen Stager, another American heiress and daughter of Anson Stager married Arthur Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde.

The 8th Earl of Perth married an American, Nancy Finke (not an heiress, I think)

Jessica Chastain married her fashion executive husband, Gian Luca Passi di Preposolo, an Italian aristocrat

Aline Griffith Dexter married the Count of Romanones,

Helen Vivien Gould, granddaughter of infamous robber baron, Jay Gould married John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies. After her death of heart attack, he married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel.

Anna Gould, daughter of Jay Gould married two French aristocrats, firstly Boni de Castellane, of the Comtes de Castellane then secondly Helie de Talleyrand Périgord of the Dukes of Sagan and Dino.
 
Ish said:
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Under old style of Russian Royals she probably would have been HSH Princess Anna Ivanovna Romnovskya-Ilynskya, but the marriage was morganatic and occurred after the fall of the Romanovs and didn't happen in France, there isn't really reason for that to have happened.
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Under the Russian empire, morganatic wives and issue did not carry the name of Romanov(skaya), but once the Romanovs became exiled private citizens the heads of the family could not fend off wives and children from bearing the names of their husbands and fathers.
 
The two daughters of Bloomfield Haines Moore and writer Clara Jessup Moore, Lilian Stuart Moore (1853-1911) and Ella Carlton Moore (1843–1892) married respectively the Swedish noblemen Baron Carl Bildt and Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen. Ella and Carl Gustaf's granddaughter Elsa von Rosen married Prince Carl of Sweden in 1937 while their son Carl Gustaf von Rosen became the brother-in-law (through his wife's sister) of Herman Göring.
 
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Prince Carj Junior of Sweden lost his tittle and became Bernadotte as a lot of ex Royals he divorced , married a second Lady , divorced ; the third one was his Widow.
A lot of divorces ! Why ??
 
Martha Sharp Crawford (Sunny Von Auersperg then Von Bülow) firstly married Prince Alfred of Auersperg, then secondly Claus Von Bülow.

maria-olivia said:
Prince Carj Junior of Sweden lost his tittle and became Bernadotte as a lot of ex Royals he divorced , married a second Lady , divorced ; the third one was his Widow.
A lot of divorces ! Why ??
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Just like with “ordinary” humans, royals and nobles have and do divorce. It isn’t that serious.
 
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maria-olivia said:
Prince Carj Junior of Sweden lost his tittle and became Bernadotte as a lot of ex Royals he divorced , married a second Lady , divorced ; the third one was his Widow.
A lot of divorces ! Why ??
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Divorce rates are higher in Sweden than in a some European countries.
In 2019 it was 52% compared to 15% in Ireland.

On another note wasn't Carl Bernadotte surrounded in scandal and had to leave Sweden?
 
Margaret Wright Bedford, after divorcing her wealthy American husband who came from her social circle, she later on married two high ranking aristocrats, firstly Prince and Duke, Charles d’Arenberg of the Dukes d’Arenberg, then lastly Emmanuel de crussol d’Uzès of the Dukes of Uzès.

C.Z Guest married Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, of the Barons of Wimborne and cousin of Winston Churchill and her son Alexander married Elizabeth Geacintov, a member of the Russian nobility.

Raymond Richard Guest, of the Barons and Viscounts Wimborne married three times and in his last, he married Princess Caroline Murat of the Princes Murat and Pontecorvo.

This branch of the Guest family became American citizens after Frederick Edward “Eddie” Guest married Amy Phipps, daughter of American industrialist Henry Phipps.

Nancy Leishman, daughter of John George Alexander Leishman, a wealthy industrialist and partner of John Carnegie married Karl, 13th Duke of Cröy of the Cröy-Dülmen branch.

Elizabeth Livingston Mills, aunt of Beatrice Livingston Mills, countess of Granard married William George Cavendish-Bentinck of the Dukes of Portland.

Lewis Harcourt, 1 st Viscount Harcourt of the ancient Norman Harcourt dynasty married Mary Ethel Burns, daughter of banker Walter Hayes Burns and Mary Lyman Morgan, a sister of the very wealthy banker J.P Morgan.

Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt married the Hon. John Francis Amherst-Cecil, of the Marquesses of Exeter and Mary Tyssen-Amherst, of the Barons Amherst of Hackney, his mother succeeded as the next Baroness Amherst of Hackney.
 
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maria-olivia said:
Prince Carj Junior of Sweden lost his tittle and became Bernadotte as a lot of ex Royals he divorced , married a second Lady , divorced ; the third one was his Widow.
A lot of divorces ! Why ??
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On another note wasn't Carl Bernadotte surrounded in scandal and had to leave Sweden?
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Prince Carl was involved in the so called "Scandal of Huseby" where the rich and eccentric Miss Florence Stephens had made him the heir to her fortune including the large estate centred around the manor of Huseby. It turned out that Carl had made many incompetent business dealings and that he and Florence had gotten themselves involved with scrupulous business men that robbed the estate of everything of value (including the cutting down of the vast forests). It turned into a huge scandal and court case with Carl declaring himself guilty of fraud (this was when he lost his Order of the Seraphim) and Florence being declared incompetent and placed under a guardianship for over 15 years.
If I may speculate about the reason for his first divorce, his wife Elsa was seven years his senior (something that could catch up with them eventually) and there are rumours about him having an illegitimate son in the area of his parents' summer house.
While I don't know the reason for his second divorce it can't be a coincidence that his wife Ann left him during the height of the scandal. The couple had been tabloid fodder for years even before the scandal broke with the contractor's daughter nicknamed "Princess Andersson" by the press. This is said to be one of the causes to why Carl and Kirstine (his third wife) waited over 15 years to get married. He didn't want her to be subjected to the same treatment.
 
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JR76 ,
Thank you so much for your answer . I knew nothing about the "Scandal of huseby".
Count Carl and Countess Kistine were at the second row for King Baudouin's Funerals. Nobody knew him in Belgium.
 
His widow,Kristine Bernadotte only died in 2014 and am thinking that she was the last Princess of Bernadotte!
 
An Ard Ri said:
His widow,Kristine Bernadotte only died in 2014 and am thinking that she was the last Princess of Bernadotte!
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Yes, she was the last Princess Bernadotte. Carl's previous two wives died in 1975 & 1991 respectively and his daughter Madeleine Kogevinas is only a countess.

Maybe it would be better if this discussion was moved to a more suitable thread?
 
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Anita Stewart 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_de_Braganza

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Stoody_Hayes
 
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy famously married William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington in 1944.

Sadly Kathleen was killed in a plane crash in 1948.
 
Marella Agnelli’s mother, Margaret Clarke was an American from Rockford, Illinois who married Don Filippo Caracciolo of the Princes Castagneto.

Marella’s husband Gianni also had American roots through his maternal grandmother, Jane Allen Campbell from New York who married to Carlo Bourbon del Monte of the Princes of San Faustino. Gianni’s mother was Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte.

Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, of the Princes Ruspoli and of Holy Roman Empire married thirdly American heiress, Mary Beers-Curtis.

Elizabeth Curtis-Beers, sister of Mary Curtis-Beers married Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord of the Dukes and Princes of Sagan and Dino. After they divorced, he married another wealthy American, Adele Livingston Stevens (née Sampson).

Marguerite Mathilde Slidell, daughter of politician and businessman, John Slidell married Baron Frederic Emile d’Erlanger of the Banking Barons d’Erlanger.

Ann Louise Bingham, daughter of American senator, William Bingham married Alexander Baring, 1st Baron of Ashburton.

Frances Donnelly, American actress married Francis Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton after the death of his first wife.

Maria Mathilda Bingham, sister of Ann Louise Bingham married firstly comte de Tilly, then secondly Henry Baring then thirdly the Marquess de Blaisel.

Her brother, William Bingham married Marie-Charlotte Chartier de Lotbiniere of the seigneurs de Rigaud.

Ava Lowle Willing, formerly Astor married secondly the 4th Baron Ribblesdale

Her daughter, Ava Muriel Astor married Prince Serge Platon Obolensky, then later, Raimund Von Hofsmanthall, and her last marriage was to David Pleuydell-Bouverie of the Earls Radnor.

Mary Goelet, daughter of Ogden Goelet married the Duke of Roxburghe

Pauline Payne Whitney of the Whitney family married Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough , after her death he married another wealthy American, Edith Starr Miller.

Sir Arthur Paget, of the Marquesses of Angelessey married Minnie Stevens, daughter of American hotelier, Paran Stevens.

Mary Leiter, daughter of dry goods merchant, Levi Leiter married George Curzon, of the Barons Curzon of Keddleston Hall.

Maude Louise Lorillard, of the wealthy Lorillard Family married the 3rd Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring Family.

Baron Hilton II married June Tessa von Walderdorff, of the Counts of Walderdorff.

His older sister, Nicky Hilton married James Rothschild, of the Banking Barons Rothschild and son of Anita Patience Guinness, of the Earls Iveagh, and Barons Moyne (Guinness family).

American heiress, Ann Breese married Lord Alastair Robert Innes-Ker, of the Dukes of Roxburghe.

The second Earl of Ancaster married American, Elouise Lawrence Breese, the sister of Ann Breese who married Alastair Innes-Ker.

Florence Louise Breckinridge married Thomas Fermor Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, of the Barons Hesketh .
 
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