ASTOR HEIRESS WEDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 131, 15 March 1933, Page 2

ASTOR HEIRESS WEDS.

TITANIC VICTIM'S DAUGHTER. AUSTRIAN AS SECOND HUSBAND. Princess Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky, who obtained a divorce from her husband, Prince Serge Obolensky; _ a few. months ago, was quietly married at Newark, New Jersey, in January, to Raimund von Hoffmannstahl, an Austrian. ' ' , The Princess is one of the richest women in the world. She is the daughter of Colonel J. J. Astor, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster in 1912. Raimund von Hoffmannstahl belongs to a famous Austrian family, the most ' celebrated of whom was Hugh yon Hoffmannstahl, the poet and dramatist, who wrote the "Rose Cavalier." Princess Obolensky, whose mother is now Lady Ribblesdale, was very wealthy before she was 21, and on coming of age she came into further fortune of £2,000,000. When she married Prince Obolensky in 1924 there were three ceremonies—one at the Princes Row register office, one at the chapel of the Savoy, and one at the Russian Church in Buckingham Palace Road. A son was born a year after the wedding. Just before the event the Prince and Princess bought from Earl Beatty "the most perfect house in London"—Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park. For a time they lived sixmonths of the year in London and six in New York. In both cities they gave parties which were the talk of the town. Prince Serge Obolensky is one of the most romantic of the princely Russian exiles who have made their home in England since the revolution.