Alice Astor

Ava Alice Muriel Astor

Daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. (1864-1912) and his wife Ava Willing (1868-1958)

Born: New York City 27. Jul 1902

Married:

1. London 24. Jul 1924 (div.1932) Sergei Platonovich Knyaz (Prince) Obolensky-Neledinsky-Meletzky (1890-1978), son of Platon Sergeievich Knyaz Obolensky (1850-1913) and his wife Maria Konstantinovna Naryshkina (Russian nobility) (1861-1929)

2. Newark, New Jersey 21. Jan 1933 (div. 1939) Raimund Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1906-1974), son of the poet Hugo Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) and his wife Gertrud Schlesinger (1881-1959)

3. Faversham, Kent 27. Mar 1940 (div. 1946) Philip John Harding (1906-1972)

4. Reading, Vermont 12. May 1946 (div. 1952) David Pleydell-Bouverie (1911-1994)

Issue of second marriage:

• Romana Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (c. 1935) m. 1958 Roderick McEwen (1932-1982)

Died: New York City 16. Jul 1956

  

  

Source: Nicholas Jenkins: “W.H. Auden - Family Ghosts“ http://auden.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/auden/