Warren said:
Thank you for the research Preity
, but the Princess Caroline in question is a modern-day one. Because we can find no record of her in the genealogies we have doubts about her identity and right to call herself a Princess of Thurn und Taxis. See posts 42, 43 and 45.
There's a Lida princess Thurn & Taxis born Nicholls, who married Prince Viktor Thurn & Taxis in 1911. A discussion at rootsweb.com implied that she only died in 1965. Maybe she adopted the "prince Viktor" in question and this Caroline is a daughter of this "prince Viktor"? It would fit with the generations, at least.
That I found at:
http://www.ancestralbranches.com/ta...=1&PHPSESSID=81f9448c5f9a3a52b200e08d39db3f6e
Article that appeared in The Washington Post, on Wednesday, 22 April 1908:
PRINCE VICTOR OF THURN AND TAXIS
As Prince Victor of Thurn and Taxis is coming in for a good deal of attention just at present on both sides of the Atlantic in connection with his vain appeal to the English tribunals to prevent a young New York actress from styling herself his wife, and also as defendant in an action brought at Paris by a woman for money advanced to him in order to enable him to press his suit for the hand and fortune of some American heiress, it may be just as well to call attention to the fact that he left the Austrian army under extremely discreditable circumstances, entailing his retirement, not to say worse, from all the clubs which he belonged to at Vienna and at Pesth.
He formerly held a commission in the Ninth Austrian Hussar Regiment, a crack corps, but was deprived thereof without being even permitted to have his name carried on the reserve list of officers of the Austrian army, and it may be added that Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, who spent some months in this country last year, and was one of his fellow-officers in the Ninth Hussars, not only refused to hold any intercourse whatsoever with him, but even went so far as to warn people against him. This was all the more necessary, as well as timely, as the princely and ducal house of Thurn and Taxis is one of the most illustrious and historic families of Europe.
Gen. Grant Was Warned
In fact, I am betraying no confidence by stating that Gen. Frederick D. Grant, who, while American envoy at Vienna, had received many attentions from various members of the Thurn and Taxis family, was about to entertain Prince Victor at Governors Island in recognition of these courtesies, when warned in time of the nature of Prince Victor's shortcomings. It is amazing that the prince, in view of what has taken place in Austria, should so impudently court publicity in England and in France.
The chief of the family, of which Prince Victor is the black sheep, is Prince Albert, Duke of Woerth and of Donaustaufen, a nephew of the late Empress of Austria, married to an Austrian archduchess, and one of the very wealthiest nobles in Europe. He still bears the title of hereditary postmaster general of the Holy Roman Empire, conferred on the head of his house 300 years ago, and he is also titular postmaster general to the crown of Bavaria.
End of quote. Seems that this prince Viktor was the black sheep of the family, so maybe the family decided not to recognize any descendents.
