The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-16

of the Duchess of Croy is sustained
In Germany and Austria she will rank
Ear above three other American women
who can. or could boast Of being
Italian Processes. For example
there is Miss Elizabeth Hickson Field
OF New York, who married Prince Sal
vator Branca ccio. whose title dates
BACK to 1891. and who also bears the
Spanish title Duke OF Lustra. This
prince who has been q model hus-
band was a prime favorite with the
late King Hnunbert. and an attache
or his court. while tho American prin-
cess used TO be lady-in- waiting to
Queen Margherita.
Another American princess In Italy
was Mass Josephine Mary Curtis.
daughter OF Joseph Davis Beers Curtis.
OF New York. who. nj Paris in 1855.
became the third wife Of Dom Emanuel.
Prince of Ruspoli and OF Poggia- Suasa.
an Italian deputy In 1855 the Italian
Prince Camporeale. who was also Duke
of Aldragana. married a New York
DIVORCE. Mrs. Thomas Kingsland who
had been Miss Florence Rinney, daugh
Ter or John Binney. OF Burlington. y.
D. IN which city the American girl
became tina Princess Camporeale. This
princes family as far back as tho
fourteenth century migrated from Bo-
iogna TO Sicily. where they have since
been established
Among the other American prin-
cesses was Miss Evelyn Julia BRYANT
Mackay. stepdaughter OF John W.
MaciIay, who, at Paris. in 1885. married
frlnce Colonna Iii Galatro. Spanish
scapegrace. whose abuse and brutality
caused her 10 leave him. and live after
ward with her mother in London.
Keeping her three children with her
About this time Miss Clara daughter
OF Coils i. Huntington, married Prince
Hatzfe!dt OF Germany. and Miss Win
marietta singer another American girl.
married Prince de Sccv-NIontbelliar ri
Then in 1899 Miss Florence Hazard.
daughter OF +. c. Hazard. millionaire
catsup manufacturer Of Shrewsbury
~ j., married Prince Francis Auers-
Perg. who had been n poor physician
IN New York, and this international
marriage might so far as rank is CON
cerned. have been one OF the most brill
iIant yet made by an American sirl.
since this prince belonged to one OF
those mcdiatized or formerly reiening
houses or Germany. rather than to the
mere nobility. But because OF his
marriage. he was obliged by his fanily.
to resign all OF his rights and preroga-
tives as member Of mediatIzed
house. and to descend to tho rank OF
the ordinary nobility, as in the case
az the media tized Count PopDenheim.
whose countess, now divorced was n
Miss Wheeler. Of New York. Princess
Auerspcrg also left her husband after
short and stormy married life
Our Princess EIopes
The next American princess entered
upon the page OF history was the veal
thy, bur Inflated Clara Ward. OF De-
troit who in 1890 married the Prince
de Chimay OF the old French house OF
that name, and who. after living with
him Ave years, spending 100000 in
repairing his estates and bearing him
two children. ran away with Rigo, a
Hungarian gypsy musician who has
lately been performing In this coun-
try The prince, who has been de-
scribed in the American prints as OF
irreproachable conduct, obtained di
vorce In 1897, after which the ex-prin
cess had the noble Chimay crest tat
tooed upon her arm and then dis
tributed photographs OF herself adorned
In this manner. The court gave the
prince tho custody OF her children.
She was only In her teens when she
married him. Our only other French
princess Is Anna Gould. daughter OF
lay Gould, who some years ago d.
vorced Count Boni de Casteilane and