father death_date death_place house birth_place mother title name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name
col. william cornwallis-west 29 june 1943 waldenburg , silesia -lrb- today poland -rrb- house of hochberg ruthin castle , denbighshire , wales mary `` patsy '' fitzpatrick princess of pless daisy 28 june 1873 hans heinrich xv image : daisy von pless.jpg daisy , princess of pless
 mary theresa olivia cornwallis-west
daisy , princess of pless

daisy , princess of pless -lrb- mary theresa olivia ; `` née '' cornwallis-west ; 28 june 1873 -- 29 june 1943 -rrb- , was a noted society beauty in the edwardian period , and a member of one of the wealthiest european noble families .
daisy and her husband hans heinrich xv were the owners of large estates and coal mines in silesia -lrb- poland -rrb- which brought the hochbergs enormous fortune .
her extravagant lifestyle coupled with disastrous events and political and family scandals were tasty morsels for the international press .
