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Anne, Baroness Dőry de Jobaháza, formerly Princess Anna of Ardeck (née Anne Hollingsworth Price) (August 25, 1868[lower-alpha 1] – April 24, 1945) was an American heiress and actress who married into the European aristocracy.
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Born | Anne Hollingsworth Price August 25, 1868 Edgemoor, Delaware, U.S. |
Died | April 24, 1945 76) | (aged
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Children | 4 |
Anne was born on August 25, 1868, at Ellerslie Hall in Edgemoor, near Wilmington, Delaware.[lower-alpha 2] She was a daughter of oil magnate James Price II (1834–1904) and Sarah M. (née Harlan) Price (1832–1898).[4] Her brother, Samuel Harlan Price, was married to Susan Coleman Wells (later Mrs. Morris R. Stroud).[5] Anne was one of five sisters, who all married into the European nobility,[1] which included Margaret Plater Price (who married in 1882 Edmund, Baron Wucherer von Huldenfeld,[lower-alpha 3] who was tutor to Archduke Eugen and Lord of the Manor of Gleinstätten),[6] Susan Harlan Price (who married in 1885 Alexandru Socec,[lower-alpha 4] a general in Romanian Army),[7] Matilda Louise Price (who married in 1883 Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza,[lower-alpha 5] the King's Chamberlain who adopted their son-in-law Heinrich Thyssen),[8] and Sallie Mae Price[lower-alpha 6] (who married in 1891 Maximillian, Baron von Berg[lower-alpha 7]).[4][9]
Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Tatnall Price[lower-alpha 8] and Matilda Louise (née Sanderson) Price,[10] and her maternal grandparents were Susan Preston (née Fairlamb) Harlan and Samuel Harlan Jr., of Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., shipbuilders in Wilmington (who built Yampa, which was purchased by German Emperor William II[11][12][13]).[14] Harlan and Hollingsworth was acquired by Bethlehem Steel in 1904, although her grandfather Harlan had died in 1883 in Vienna.[10][15]
Anne and her five sisters all were "beautiful and charming belles of Wilmington and Philadelphia, where they made their debuts."[1] They spent a year in Europe with their parents, arriving in Vienna in the early 1880s. Matilda was the only daughter who ever returned to America.[1][lower-alpha 9] Reportedly, every time their father would return from his trip back to Philadelphia to manage the family business, one of his daughters would be engaged.[16]
On December 17, 1890, Anne was married to Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Ardeck (1858–1902) in Dresden.[17] At the time of their wedding, the Prince, the eldest son of Maria von Hanau-Hořowitz and Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld,[18] was a Lieutenant of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the Prussian Army.[17] His father was a son of Charles, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld and Princess Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (a daughter of Prince Louis William Geldricus Ernest of Bentheim and Steinfurt. Notwithstanding that his mother was a daughter of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse-Cassel, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt regarded his parents' marriage as morganatic. Upon his parents' divorce in 1872, his mother and the children were styled Princes of Ardeck and Princesses of Ardeck.[19]
Her mother died in Stuttgart in April 1892.[10] Prince Friedrich died on April 1, 1902, at Villa Wilhelmshöhe.[20]
On February 4, 1904, she married Hungarian magnate Baron József Döry de Jobaháza (1868–1954) in Mihályi (formerly the Kingdom of Hungary). He was a son of Baron Nicholas Miklós Dőry de Jobaháza and Baroness Mária von Horváth de Szürnyeg.[21] Together, they were the parents of four daughters (three of whom married titles),[16] including:[16]
In September 1904, her father died, also in Stuttgart. Anne and her husband's home was in Schloss Hody bei Galanta, Pressburger Comitate, Hungary.[1] In 1910, they acquired Schloss Johnsdorf in Szepes County, Hungary.[22][23]
In 1945, after the Russians pillaged Schloss Johnsdorf and carried off their daughter Mária, Anne and her husband fled to Austria where she died a month later, aged 80, on April 24, 1945, from "hardships suffered under the Russian occupation of Austria."[24] Their daughter died three days later.[24] Anne left her entire estate to her and the Baron Döry-Jobaháza, except for $750 that was directed towards the care of her first husband's grave in Warmbrunn, Schleisen, Germany.[16] József died April 14, 1954, in Johnsdorf.[25]
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