BEAUTY DIES PENNILESS
BEGGED FOR NIGHT’S LODGING. VIENNA, November 13. One of the most noted beauties in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Baroness Louise von Poglodowska, has just died, destitute, in a. Vienna hospital. Baroness Poglodowskq|, better known by her maiden name as Louise Robinson, was the friend of the Archduke Otto, father of the late Emperor Karl. Otto fell in love with her when she was a penniless girl of
.22, and established her in an elaborate villa. Louise Robinson had two children, who are respectively the illegitimate sister and brother of the late Emperor. When Otto was dying she was his devoted nurse. On his death the Emperor Francis Joseph presented her with a considerable sum to establish herself in ordinary life. She subsequently married a Pole, Baron Poglodowska, but her money gradually dwindled in international gambling casinos. , Before she died the once famous and much courted Habsburg beauty had to beg in the streets for a night’s lodging.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1934, Page 11
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