The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-28
BY Ia MARou,sE DE foNTENoY

BY Ia MAReUlsE DE fONTENoY.
o many questions have been adj
dressed TO me by readers of these
Letters concerning young Count
Guido Won Auersperg, VINO has
been staying at the Plaza. in New
York, and who has become involved
in quarrel there with tho AUSTRIAN
consul general. a. Nuber Won Fereked,
newspaper Interview attacking that
fuuctionary, tina, tho following notes
concerning him may be of interest,
He was born in 1852. and is one. of the
Auersperg and of the iatter's Lutheran
wife. who was Anna von Witzlehen.
With regard to young Count Guides
possessions. which are vaguely put
furnished al 100000 acres, may men
tion that his fathers ancestral home
the chateau and estate of Thurn am
Hart, where Indeed Count Guido and
his brothers and sisters were born
have had to be sold. and have before
me as | write the record of their haY-
ing passed into the possession of the
Croatian- Sclavonic Mortgage Bank at
Agram. AS this chateau contains the
museum in which are gathered all The
relics of that Count Anthony Alexan-
der Auersperg who was not only SO
celebrated as a statesman. bit also SO
popular as poet, undar the pen name
Of ''Anastasius Grun' --relics which
have now been alienateG from his fam
ily and are at present owned by the
bank--it is difficult to believe that the
sale of the place was of an altogether
voluntary character, and in the event
of the count Contracting a marriage or
this side of the Atlantic. II would be
as well for the family of his bride &c
ascertain just what property ana VIVA,
| chateaux he does still own in the land
of his birth.
The quarrel hetween young Count
Auersperg. and the Austro- Hungarian
consul-general in New York IS sale
| to have originated in the reluctance
of the latter- to introduce him to his
| acauaintances, and to procure MN m
| yitations to entertainments to which
the count imagined that he was enti.
| tied by his name and birth TO pc ASKED
I! without more ado.
| 1t is to be regretted that Conn'
| Guido Won Auersperg. whose father Is
! not the head of the family. but merely
| a younger son, has not had the oPPor.
very distant kinsman, Prince Erancls
| AuerspcrE, who, after running through
his fortune in Austria. came 70 INC
| United States to embark upon an en-
physician. After se,veral,,years OF study
and Of ali sorts of hardships, he event
ually got his diploma and authorizatlor
| to practice as doctor N New ORR i,N
Long Island Hospital, and about !, ter
| wears ago married Miss Florence sHaz
ard. daughter Of the well7known grocer
and sauce manufacturer of Shrews
| bury N, j. Princess Francis AuerS
rergs sister is the wife of the well
| known New York brewer. Beadleston
| Tho princely branch Of me nous. o.
| Auersperg is one of the lunlor- me
| thereof, and separated from the parsnl
stem some $50 years. IT mas lurnlsnee
several great statesmen to the -A9strlar
empire. notably the late Prince Charles
William Auersperg. who was !, z prime I n!
minister in 1868, and MS pro9n = s,
Prince Adolf, prime minister n l !,
| The present head of the prlncelN ms
| is the former Of these two STAT mems
eldest son, Prince Charles. ana amone
] his sisters one is married 70 Tri1lce
| Alan Rehan and. another, Frirsess
| Aglae. the foster-sister of ArGhouchess
Marie Valerie, to Count Ferulnanc
Klnsky, grand master of the horse e
the Emperor,
Count Hugues de Choiseul, whose
Impending marriage to Mile, Margue'
rite de Vileneuve, daughter or me ia l
Marquis de VilleneuVe Trans, mas 1uss
been announced. is half-Amerlean, NJ
mother, the widowed Duchess d.
Cholseul- Praslin, having been c, MS,
| Elizabeth Forbes, OF New, fork Coun'
| Hughes was born at Ryde, IN the lsle
| Of Wight twenty-five years ago, ant
| his eldest brother, the present duke
| is married tn Mile. Jeanne dc SalVerle