The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-22
Prospective Bride of American
Often Comes to This
Country.
ny Ia MAnoUIsE or FoNinNoy.

CUNTESS Camilla Hoyos. whose
tnBs cement TO Charles wilkins
short. Jr.. of 1884 East Macmll-
Ian Street Walnut Hin. Cincn-
natl. has JUST been announced by cable
from London and whose marriage IS to
take place there In November Is half
English. has been a frequent visitor
TO this country. and has often been
entertained in the Berkshires by OK
Ambassador and Mrs Cheate. Her
mother IS the daughter OF old Mr.
Robert Whitehead inventor and man
ufacturcr of the famous torpelo. Tho
great torpedo works are situated at
tiume, on the Austrian coast OF the
-Adriaiic and IL was while the late
count George lioyoH. as captain IN the
Austrian navy. was employed 10 super
wise the Allug OF large order FOR
MS government. that he met and mar
RED Miss Alice Whitehead. hciress OF
her father,s great fortune. Her child
rem have all been brought up as Protes-
tants. while the rest OF the Hoyos ram
ily are strict Catholics
Although the widowed Countess
George Hoyos has no less than seven
children, OF whom Camilla is the
youngest, the latter has q considerable
allowance from her mother, and should
eventually Inherit soodly portion OF
her grandfathcr's wealth. Countess
Camilla Il tall handsome woman, with
r..
formerly engaged to Samuel Pepys
cockerell, OF the English Foreign Of
flee. but broke of the engagement with
In & fortnight OF the date appointed
for the wedding she was born in the
Isle OF Wight thirty-twO years ago,
and Is therefore considerably older
than her American nance. who grad
uated at Hamilton College in 1905 She
was brought UP almost entirely in Eng
land. and has always made her home
there. owing 10 her disadvantageous
position in Austria. where on account
o. the bourgeois birth Of her English
mother she is barred IN Austrian
woman from presentation at the Wen
nese court
This is in accordance with the regu-
!auons which strictly require that
every candidate for presentation shall
possess an ancestry purely nooie on
both paternal and matnsrnal Sides for
-FOUR generations back. IN other words
sixteen noble great great grandparents
making sixteen quarterings or arms
on the family shield. Vt is a peculiar
anomaly. that while she IS thus denied
admission 10 the court OF Vienna and
consequently 10 the great world Of the
Austrian capital, as an Austrian sub
jcct. she Will be qualified for presen-
tation there by the American Ambas-
sador as Mrs. Short, wife OF an Amerl-
can citizen
One OF the countess's sisters is the
widow OF the late Prince Herbert Bis-
eellor; another IS married to Count
Ludwig Piesscn. former German Min
lister q Athens, while \ third Lillian
by name, !s welded TO Count Adolf
Reyentlow. Chamberlain OF the Grand
Duke Of Meoklenburg- Schwerln. Who is
noted for his Anglophobia. The Hoyos
family Is OF Spanish origin. nrd came
% Germany in the train Of Emperor
Charles Y. Indeed. the original house
OF Hoyos stil hourishes in the PENN
sula and for number OF years the
MARQUIS Hoyos OF Madrid was Spanish
Ambassador 10 the court OF Vienna
The Austrian branch of the family
We're created barons OF the Empire
IN 1917 and counts a hundred years
later The head OF thu house Count
Earnest. is n member OF the Austrian
House OF Lords. and a very distant
cousin OF Counties Camilla Another
distant cousin was the late Count lad
islas Hoyos. for many years Austrian
Envoy at Washington. where his eldest
son was born, receiving among other
names that. of Columbus This son on
attaining manhood returned to this
country as Secretary OF the Austrian
Mission. which in the meantime had
been raised to an Embassy